Happen
Visit
Visit verb - To make a brief visit.
Usage example: stopped to visit with my father on the way out of town
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Contrived Coincidence: Elizabeth and the Gardeners happen to visit Pemberly on the same day Darcy returns; he was even meant to return the day after their visit, but changed his mind.
Source: Literature / Pride and Prejudice -
Not the other way round - he doesn't visit the future to see what will happen, or come up with plans first and predict their success later, he just makes whatever he's predicted using traditional astrology happen.
Source: Time Master -
J suspected something might happen to him, and took measures that turn out to come in handy, including encoding a secret message into an otherwise normal letter written to his soon to visit nephew.Mike, I found some strange runes in my last voyage.
Source: Video Game / StarTropics
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