chance
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Diogo Dalot: Tidy spin and dash into space to create a chance for Rashford but had too much work to do defensively as he lacked cover far too often.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
For the banking industry, it was another chance to stamp out a feature of the crypto ecosystem it viewed as akin to paying interest on deposits—and a competitive threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
“What was once a 1-in-500 or 1-in-1,000 chance, it was now a 1-in-100 or a 1-in-75 chance,” Snow said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
He was then able to use that extra money to buy more Bitcoin, driving up its price and giving himself a chance to sell more securities to investors.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Three generations of Samuelses. He’s the only one born with a chance of inheriting land. Mr. Thompson’s going to leave his land to his sons. What’re you going to leave?”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Unlike Joao Pedro, who is capable of creating chances for himself, Welbeck found it difficult to influence the game in the same way.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely negligible.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The U.S. achieved dominance by taking big chances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Just one vote of "discourage" from a veto-holding permanent member of the Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia or the United States -- would scupper a candidate's chances.
From Barron's
“There are nearly one million, six hundred eighty thousand different combinations of the first four characters. The chances the same combination would be at each location are astronomical.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
The odds on Tuesday for one rate hike in September were at 60%, while a second hike at the Fed’s December meeting was chanced at 36.7%, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ionic Mineral Technologies was mining the clay in Utah when it chanced upon what could be the critical mineral equivalent of a gold mine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
He's a civil servant turned novelist who "chanced his arm" with one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
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
The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
“I was chancing my arm seeing if I could get flying lessons,” Jean-Baptiste continues, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
He had heard stories of people chancing upon diamonds and hoped that he too would get lucky one day.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
Like Friday nights at Blockbuster back in the day, the pleasure of Shudder is in chancing upon under-the-radar stuff.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Was it worth chancing it, or should he double back?
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing chance
Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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