chance
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“That’s kind of unusual for me, especially with my command, but I thought I competed well and gave our team a chance to win.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
If AFC president Sheikh Salman were to step forward, for example, there is a chance that could sway some of the associations in Asia that are currently supportive of Infantino towards him.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Given these facts and the situation on the ground in New York correctional facilities, it seems Alcaraz never stood a chance.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“It has granted me a second chance at life,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“You shouldn’t have gone to see him alone, Edda,” he continues without giving me a chance to explain.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
While Roberts said last week that he thought the chances of Rushing catching again were “very small,” Rushing was more optimistic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The chances of an increase in September were slashed to about 43 percent from 64 percent a week ago, according to Bloomberg.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Two additional live feeds will come from other locations inside the path of totality, improving the chances that the broadcast will capture clear, high-quality views of the eclipse.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
In fact, the DeepMind team calculated the chances of a human playing it at one in 10,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
No. I would have to show up and take my chances.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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's a civil servant turned novelist who "chanced his arm" with one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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
Walter Shawlee chanced upon a slide rule from high school while looking through a drawer at his home in Kelowna, British Columbia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Boaz chanced standing up and was pleased that he didn’t pass out again.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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 battle closed in and people started to risk escape, tying white flags to vehicles crammed with people and chancing it on the treacherous road out.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
Conditions Chelsea are appealing against in a state of affairs they they are either chancing their arms or don’t quite understand how sanctions work.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2022
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
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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Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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