by any chance

ADVERB

ever

Synonyms

STRONGEST

consistently constantly continually forever regularly usually

WEAK

anytime at all at all times at any point endlessly eternally everlastingly evermore for keeps in any case in perpetuum incessantly invariably on any occasion perpetually relentlessly till cows come home to the end of time unceasingly unendingly

ADVERB

possibly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conceivably likely perhaps probably

STRONG

maybe peradventure perchance

WEAK

God willing at all by any means could be if possible in any way not impossibly within realm of possibility

Antonyms

STRONGEST

improbably unlikely

WEAK

impossibly

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

Uh, do you, by any chance know, Paris where she is right now, right?’

From Fox News • Oct. 5, 2021

Does her grandson, by any chance, have the acting bug?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2019

"Do you happen to know whose band's at the Taft or the New Yorker, by any chance?"

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger