What does as it happens mean?

as it happens

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English

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"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..."

as it happened (alternative) as it so happens (alternative) it so happens (alternative) it just so happens (alternative)

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