chance
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Betts made a diving stop at short but had no chance at throwing out Dubón.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Markets immediately repriced the likelihood of a Fed rate hike, with CME's FedWatch tool seeing just over a 20 percent chance, compared with more than 65 percent early last week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
“How can it be right that some are able to pay their way in while others have to scramble for a chance to see this piece of our heritage?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
That gave Hamilton the chance to switch to the preferred soft tyres, and a lap after the restart he passed Hadjar into Turn One to take the final podium position.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
I found a loose long-sleeved dress for Betsie that would cover the blue sweater when she would have a chance to put it on.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The 29-year-old German's chances were boosted on Saturday when current world number one Jannik Sinner announced his decision to withdraw from the Shanghai Masters.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The lesson wasn’t about which class of stocks is safer, but rather that diversification means not only bulwarking your portfolio against downturns but also enhancing your chances of long-term success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The chances of a second straight CIF Open Division state championship look good so far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
That could have increased the chances for chemical interactions while also providing some protection from harsh surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Bobby pondered for a long while and, with no apparent winning chances left, reluctantly agreed.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The odds on Tuesday for one rate hike in September were at 60%, while a second hike at the Fed’s December meeting was chanced at 36.7%, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ionic Mineral Technologies was mining the clay in Utah when it chanced upon what could be the critical mineral equivalent of a gold mine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Motie, having earlier hit Rashid's hat-trick ball for six, chanced his arm with a counter-attack and ended up adding 91 in 68 balls with Alzarri Joseph.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025
He started out as a fiction writer who, while living in Paris, chanced upon avant-garde jazz and took up the saxophone.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
If he chanced to meet his mother in the hall, she would not look at him but rather study the fleecy spheres of lint that drifted along the floor in her son’s wake.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
“I was chancing my arm seeing if I could get flying lessons,” Jean-Baptiste continues, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
He had heard stories of people chancing upon diamonds and hoped that he too would get lucky one day.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
Like Friday nights at Blockbuster back in the day, the pleasure of Shudder is in chancing upon under-the-radar stuff.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
“You’re always chancing it when you come back,” Romo said during his postgame news conference on Thanksgiving.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2015
Was it worth chancing it, or should he double back?
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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