Adverb
as it happens (not comparable)
(idiomatic) By coincidence, incidentally
I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I'll go and get it.
A. "You won't know Paris, I suppose." B. As it happens, I went to university there!
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. Gene Roddenberry
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. John Scalzi
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook. David Benioff
Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there. Shane West
Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else. Russian Proverb