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chance
adjective as in accidental, unforeseeable
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adventitious, at random, by-the-way, casual, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked-for, unplanned
noun as in possibility, probability
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break, likelihood, odds, opportunity, outlook, prospect, shot, time
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contingency, indications, liability, occasion, opening, scope, show, squeak, wager
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noun as in fate, luck
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accident, adventure, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, fluke, fortuity, fortune, gamble, hap, happening, hazard, kismet, lottery, misfortune, occurrence, peradventure, peril, providence, toss-up
noun as in gamble, risk
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verb as in gamble, risk; endanger
verb as in happen
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arrive, befall, betide, break, bump, come, go, hap, light, luck, meet, occur, stumble, transpire, tumble
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be one's fate, blunder on, come about, come off, come to pass, fall out, fall to one's lot, hit upon, light upon, stumble on, turn up
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Example Sentences
With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.
At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?
Do those things," he said, "and you'll have half a chance of being successful.
Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.
If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
Instead of giving you a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to get out of a mistake."
Few of us there are who would not gladly read and speak several more languages if we had the chance of doing so.
In running over many words, the intellect might be arrested by chance.
But it was my only chance then; or rather I had seen enough of business to avoid making mistakes when I could.
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On this page you'll find 334 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chance, such as: contingent, incidental, adventitious, at random, by the way, and casual.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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