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See disruption when travelling appearing quite by chance (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

serendipitous

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'quite by chance' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adjective which matches the answer.

'see disruption when travelling' is the wordplay.
'when travelling' indicates an anagram.
'see'+'disruption'='seedisruption'
'seedisruption' with letters rearranged gives 'SERENDIPITOUS'.

'appearing' is the link.

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(Other definitions for serendipitous that I've seen before include "Luckily" , "Found by chance" , "Fortunately" , "Lucky in making unexpected discoveries" , "Occurring by happy chance" .)

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