chance
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BBC Sport's Chelsea reporter Nizaar Kinsella says insiders insist the chance will be gone and Fernandez will stay until next summer, if City do not make their move on Friday.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Garcia argued Jester should receive the longest punishment allowed by law — five years — because he’d squandered an earlier chance at redemption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
By so quickly jumping from one situation to a completely different one, “Lightscape” never gives us a chance to build a connection with what we’re seeing on screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
That’s a high price to pay for the once-in-a-year chance of capturing one of those spectacular one-day wonders.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
And maybe a chance to spend more time with Dad.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The chances of finding earthquake survivors in Colombia dropped significantly on Friday, four days after the 7.4-magnitude tremor struck, though rescue efforts plowed ahead as hundreds remained missing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The chances of you having another big-ticket expense in the next couple of years is reduced.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
“We’re already locked into a huge financial liability. This was one of our big chances to throw in protections for the city and also provide that transparency,” said Mejia, who opposed the agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
No, it isn’t inflation in ticket prices or buyers’ inflated sense of their lousy chances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Skinny as I was, I didn’t want to take any chances, so I didn’t go far—just far enough to be surrounded by tall trees where no one from The Village would see me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
Walter Shawlee chanced upon a slide rule from high school while looking through a drawer at his home in Kelowna, British Columbia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Along the way they chanced upon an army unit and requested help.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024
One day he chanced to see a mighty eagle, greater and more splendid than any mortal bird, bearing a maiden to an island not far away.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
If chancing the arm sounds simple, look what happened when Zak Crawley tried the same.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
The battle closed in and people started to risk escape, tying white flags to vehicles crammed with people and chancing it on the treacherous road out.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
It’s very satisfying to see an actress like Ms. Kidman use everything in her artistic toolbox while also chancing the audience’s sympathy and love.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Bayern’s supporters appeal for a penalty, but they’re chancing their arms on that one.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2016
“We will,” Lily replies, chancing a smile at me.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Vocabulary lists containing chance
Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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