chance
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If he can do that, then there is every chance there could be another chapter to Liverpool and Mac Allister's relationship.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The currency just last week crossed below the 160-per-dollar mark — a level often seen as a key threshold increasing the chance of government intervention.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Days before that event, the news leaked out, giving PepsiCo a chance to counterattack with full-page newspaper ads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
MS NOW Membership is also giving subscribers a chance to join live discussions with the network’s anchors and reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I doubted there was any chance for us now.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“And if you don’t do that, the chances are much greater that you’re just going to hoard it.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
To their chances of getting the best version of their best hitter for the run toward a third consecutive World Series championship, the Dodgers must say bye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
PSG's chances of winning a third European title in a row are 7.3%, fourth overall, while 2023 winners Manchester City are third, having been given a 12.7% chance.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The CME Group's FedWatch tool put the chances of an increase at more than 56 percent after figures Friday showed the US economy created far more jobs than expected in August.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
I figured I was dumping my chances with Judy Billings out with my trash.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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
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
On July 3, 1908, archaeologists excavating the ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
If chancing the arm sounds simple, look what happened when Zak Crawley tried the same.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 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
And that, members of both groups say, was the motivation for chancing the possibility that the whole enterprise might fail and alienate both bands' followings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2015
“We will,” Lily replies, chancing a smile at me.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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