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chance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | opportunity |
| Type of | possibleness, possibility |
| Has types | street, shot, day, hearing, audience, fresh start, brass ring, crack, clean slate, tabula rasa, throw, room, say, opening, occasion, hunting ground |
now is your chance.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prospect |
| Type of | potentiality, potential, potency |
chance::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| Type of | essay, assay, try, seek, attempt |
| Has types | go for broke, luck it, luck through |
chance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | probability |
| Type of | amount, quantity, measure |
| Has types | cross section, conditional probability, contingent probability, exceedance, fair chance, fat chance, joint probability, risk, risk of exposure, risk of infection, slim chance, sporting chance |
if that phone call is for me, chances are it's my wife.
chance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fortune, hazard, luck |
| Type of | phenomenon |
| Has types | toss-up, bad luck, mischance, mishap, even chance, tossup |
we ran into each other by pure chance.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | occur, take place, come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, pass off, pass |
| Has types | happen |
I chanced to meet my old friend in the street.
Examples of chance
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It's frustrating because I feel like we have a chance to be really, really good.
From the dailyherald.com
He endured four stretches of at least 14 days without a save chance last season.
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The Giants still have a chance to make the playoffs, but they'll need some help.
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Zduriencik said Ryan would be given a chance to compete for a starting position.
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It gives them a chance to pull their lives together and work to get out of debt.
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I have long wondered what might have been had they given Monarchs fans a chance.
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Now, he has a chance to make his own name on college basketball's biggest stage.
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The third and oldest reactor moved to a 1-in-270,270 chance from 1 in 1 million.
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Students who make it to nationals have a chance to win scholarships to colleges.
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- Be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
- Casual: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
- Opportunity: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
- Gamble: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
- Luck: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
- A risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
- 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
- Uverworld (stylized as UVERworld) is a Japanese rock band consisting of five members originating from Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan. Releasing five studio albums and several singles, which went on to achieve massive success, they went on to become one of the most influential rock bands in Japan to this day.
- "Chance" is the third single by Act. It was released by ZTT Records in February 1988, but was quickly withdrawn. This may have something to do with the 12" mix containing an unauthorised sample of ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me". ...
