off-chance

Example Sentences

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“I would say some of this is impacted by people buying actual fed-funds futures as a cheap hedge on the off chance that the Fed has to hike, and so they can hedge some other exposures in their books. It’s not necessarily a firm conviction.”

From MarketWatch

I text Jade, even though she’s all the way in California, on the off chance that she’s heard from Avery today.

From Literature

About things I’ve learned from Teddy, or all the different sounds I hear while I’m running, or reasons Emily Dickinson’s poems make me feel like the top of my head’s been taken off but possibly in a good way, or everything I’ve wanted to put inside the mailbox in the treehouse on the off chance that Jonah might look.

From Literature

I had to blend in on the off chance that someone noticed me.

From Literature

But on the off chance that your palm pattern means something more?

From Literature