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

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

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2023

The first is the use of private funds, rather than the sole backing from space agencies and other governmental institutions, to conduct space science off-world, focusing on a chancy endeavour with no guarantee of success.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2021

Reading Massasoit’s motives at this distance is a chancy business.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann