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For Broadcom, though, it amounts to a big bet on a chancy customer.

The third and fourth episodes are premium catnip — the third being the chanciest, since it's a nearly 50-minute look at a sketch that runs five minutes and 42 seconds.

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From here on, the origin mythology of the astounding new orange is as serendipitous and chancy as the odds of human evolution happening again.

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Problems are inevitable, though the path to overcoming them is uncertain, since medical interventions can be chancy.

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But as this chancy viewing geometry suggests, most planets will never transit as seen from Earth, which renders them effectively invisible to this workhorse detection technique.

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