chancy

Example Sentences

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Why replace a proven technology—mirrors and glass—with chancy camera feeds and video displays?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

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

A month earlier that same year, in 1935, Einstein, Rosen and Boris Podolsky made another breakthrough, one they thought would discredit the chancy nature of quantum mechanics.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

That was chancy; the fire she'd remem-bered seeing had burnt down to embers, and she heard voices as she was blowing on the coals.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin