chance
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“Now I find myself back in that life. I drive a tractor and all those things. It’s the best chance at a normal life.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Even a simple 10 metres can dramatically increase the building's chance of survival," David Peterson, an expert in managing bushfire risk, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
After the trade for Skubal, Fangraphs increased the Dodgers’ chance to win the World Series from 25% to 31%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
This was a chance to sound tough herself and claw back votes and she leaped on it.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
He clasped his paws, pleading, “So there’s a chance it might not happen? If the Universe changes its mind?”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Millions of people take statins to lower cholesterol and reduce their chances of having a heart attack or stroke.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
But Spain’s Supreme Court recently weakened that border enforcement, and many migrants seem to have believed this means that if they crossed the border they could take their chances on asylum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“If Clarity takes an August recess, it could be reconsidered in September. But we think its chances would decline meaningfully,” Capital Alpha’s Katz said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
But the chances of that coming to pass are debatable.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The chances felt high, especially as it was nearly 9 p.m. and the curfew had recently been brought forward.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
The British director Titley said she chanced upon the reality show and reached out to Nasubi because she felt no one had ever told his side of the story.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Gehr started making films in the 1960s after serving in the Army and landing in New York, where he chanced upon the work by the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, a titan of the art.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
“Only an old papyrus cutter I chanced upon in the reeds, with his donkey.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
“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
“We will,” Lily replies, chancing a smile at me.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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