Word Finder - chance

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An opportunity or possibility.

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We had the chance to meet the president last week.

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Random occurrence; luck.

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Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?

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The probability of something happening.

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There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.

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What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

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Happening by chance, casual.

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Perchance; perhaps.

You had your chance to solve it on your own.

What a chance those girls have missed!

All I want is a chance to speak my piece.

He hung up before I had a chance to end the call.

Well, we finally have the chance to be alone.

I mean, one you have a chance of winning.

I considered taking the chance of phoning from the comfort of my apartment but realized the foolishness of taking such a chance.

Dusty and Talon rose, Talon taking the chance to launch himself at Dusty.

Today, we discover things like "Wellbutrin helps people stop smoking" through chance and dumb luck.

You may not have another chance to ask me what you want to know.

I'll ask leave to go to the front, this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor.

I never got the chance to pick up his.

Let's pick her while we have the chance, before the man with the star comes back.

Worst of all, she had probably ruined any chance she had with him.

There's a chance it might be the vehicle we're looking for.

The evening was young and she had ruined his chance to spend it with Mary.

If only she could have one more chance.

I thought maybe you were giving me the chance to say no - giving me a chance to save my pride.

She would determine which case had the best chance of success.

It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of his being alone and despondent!

It's only two blocks, and it gives me a chance to wake up.

Any chance you have a contact number?

It seems worth while, however, to quote from some of her chance bits of writing, which are neither so informal as her letters nor so carefully composed as her story of her life.

He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and tomorrow.

There's a good chance they'll spot him.

You've got one chance.

Hated the hot and stickies of Norfolk weather and was always after me to transfer him back to Scranton—fat chance of that—or to some bread-bas­ket state out west.

Had it not been for a chance remark, Katie wouldn't have been aware of her ignorance.

But his subordinate rank gave him no chance to impart a greater measure of energy to the naval operations.

It gives everyone a chance to make her case and be heard.

He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to write, told Rostov the contents of his letter.

There are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance way and attaching him to himself!

It was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not made use of it....

And I said, "I should have known you had I met you by chance," and I thought to myself, "Am I telling the truth?"

I want to meet that man whom I despise, so as to give him a chance to kill and laugh at me!

It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.

That quiet walk home was her chance to relax - that and a good book.

There's no chance some of the memory is still there?

If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.

Any chance you could get his ear?

You will never have a chance with Gabriel, even when you win your deal.

I didn't take a chance on you for the reason you think.

The demon would leave nothing to chance, especially not the claiming of his mate.

She'd broken the rules from the time-before-time for a chance with Gabriel.

She never thought she had a chance of losing this round.

Maybe, just maybe, it was okay to take a chance.

It's time you gave someone else a chance, Cynthia said with a winning smile that offered him little room to maneuver.

You'll love the baby if you give yourself a chance.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

A truce was Kutuzov's sole chance of gaining time, giving Bagration's exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance if but one stage nearer Znaim.