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How to pronounce chance in English?

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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 bump, encounter, find, happen


She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day.
Type Words
Synonyms casual


a chance occurrence.
Type Words
Synonyms prospect
Type of potentiality, potential, potency
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
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.
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 danger, peril, risk
Derivation chancy


you take a chance when you let her drive.
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.
From the stltoday.com
The Giants still have a chance to make the playoffs, but they'll need some help.
From the newsday.com
Zduriencik said Ryan would be given a chance to compete for a starting position.
From the thenewstribune.com
It gives them a chance to pull their lives together and work to get out of debt.
From the thenewstribune.com
I have long wondered what might have been had they given Monarchs fans a chance.
From the sacbee.com
Now, he has a chance to make his own name on college basketball's biggest stage.
From the sacbee.com
The third and oldest reactor moved to a 1-in-270,270 chance from 1 in 1 million.
From the tennessean.com
Students who make it to nationals have a chance to win scholarships to colleges.
From the tennessean.com
More examples
  • 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". ...