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Meaning of perhappenstance | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C2

Definitions

Perhaps.

humorous, nonstandard, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“"Shove it," Sam concluded, and then went out, but came in soon, from the numbing cold of the Iranian plain, where he had been assistant-in-the-way in a half-cracked but hell-bent search for the elusive and abominable, so-called, snowman, or a facsimile reasonably thereof, perhappenstance, sponsored by a genial Texas oilman who was bored with searching just underground, and wanted to get into something deeper, or higher, depending upon the depletion of his resources, his mind among them.”
“and just perhappenstance why shouldn;t^([sic]) YOU 'get over it' and stop supporting plagarism?^([sic])”
“Or perhappenstance, the Three Stooges?”
“Morgan probably ran away at age fourteen to live adrift in the cities, perhappenstance to dine exclusively on Twinkies, a recreational breakfast food known to the state of California to induce criminal behaviors.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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