by any chance
Example Sentences
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Is he thinking about Witherspoon by any chance?
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025
"You wouldn't," the woman next to me at our table asked the waiter gently, "just happen, by any chance, to have Coke?"
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022
Do you by any chance have the Benny Hill music to hand?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Uh, do you, by any chance know, Paris where she is right now, right?’
From Fox News • Oct. 5, 2021
“Don’t tell me. I know this is very unlikely . . . but, by any chance, do you know a woman named Reina Cohen Toledano?”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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