chance
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That helps explain why scam victims often have little chance of recovering their losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
A score of 0.5 indicates performance equivalent to chance, while 1.0 represents perfect discrimination.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Some AI researchers argue that we have a duty to treat AI models with care to minimize the chance of potentially causing distress to the model.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
For Bernardeau, who is Spanish, the film offered him a chance to study his own country's history without the "bias" found in classrooms.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
“We’ll have dessert after everyone else has had a chance to finish their food,” she says.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
She’s optimistic about the chances to flip the seat, though it’s not “a shoo-in,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
But chances are, by far, you’re going to lose money doing that.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
A US official said recently that the chances of the package being split into smaller chunks "have gone way up".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Nevertheless, this was a game they could have won had they not wasted their opportunities, while squad players missed chances to press their case.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
It was not a place to take chances.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
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
Along the way they chanced upon an army unit and requested help.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024
One day he chanced to see a mighty eagle, greater and more splendid than any mortal bird, bearing a maiden to an island not far away.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
He had heard stories of people chancing upon diamonds and hoped that he too would get lucky one day.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
The strings soar; the lyrics project defiance in the face of a controlling ex-partner who has made the mistake of chancing his arm again: “I’m not that chained-up little person still in love with you.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2019
It’s very satisfying to see an actress like Ms. Kidman use everything in her artistic toolbox while also chancing the audience’s sympathy and love.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
“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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