chancy

Example Sentences

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For Broadcom, though, it amounts to a big bet on a chancy customer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

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

Still, in a crisis, China’s People’s Liberation Army could attempt a chancy gambit like offloading amphibious vehicles from the ferries at sea or using floating causeways, Dahm said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

The first is the use of private funds, rather than the sole backing from space agencies and other governmental institutions, to conduct space science off-world, focusing on a chancy endeavour with no guarantee of success.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2021

In such a system, the outcome is a chancy kind of order, always on the verge of descending into chaos, held taut against probability by the unremitting, constant surge of energy from the sun.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas