chance
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The Catholic service, conducted in Armenian, was open-casket, allowing mourners a final chance to say goodbye as they filed by the altar at the conclusion of the ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Some even see a slight chance for a bigger-than-usual hike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The longer a pit lane, the more the time loss for a pit stop, so the less chance of having more than a one-stop race.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
With the European Central Bank lifting rates last week, focus is now on the Fed, with traders pricing a more than 90 percent chance that it will also hike.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
And so any time Grandma is here, it gives him yet another chance to try to get the recipe out of her.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Prices show little prospect of falling further as escalation in the Middle East dents chances of an imminent pickup in LNG flows from the Persian Gulf, ING analysts write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
So the chances of this happening in any meaningful way are slim at best.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Another, who did not resign, stated publicly that "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans", and that he thought the chances were greater than "10 percent within the next decade".
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
But chances are your guard is lowered by the familiarity of the caller’s voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He recalculated their chances of getting rescued even if they had the sat phone.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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
Shopper Sandra Turton, who chanced upon the sale in Wigan, said it was "absolutely brilliant".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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
‘So many strange things have chanced that to learn the praise of a fair lady under the loving strokes of a Dwarf’s axe will seem no great wonder. Farewell!’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
“I was chancing my arm seeing if I could get flying lessons,” Jean-Baptiste continues, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
He had heard stories of people chancing upon diamonds and hoped that he too would get lucky one day.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
But this being the year after a deep playoff run and the back half of the relievers’ injury-filled careers, the Nationals aren’t chancing it.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2020
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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