chancy

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024

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.

From Scientific American • Oct. 6, 2023

Placing the orchestra on the stage might seem acoustically chancy: wouldn’t the sound overwhelm the singers?

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2023

Since that last conversation—the important one in which Guitar explained his work, not the brief chancy talks they’d had afterward—Milkman wished he had the nerve to ask Guitar the question that was bothering him.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison