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Meaning of as it happens | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

By coincidence, incidentally.

idiomatic, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I’ll go and get it.”
“―“You won’t know Paris, I suppose.” ―“As it happens, I went to university there!””
“In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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