chance
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He got his first break at a professional club when Manchester United Soccer Schools took a chance on him in 2004.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
His doctors told him another round of chemotherapy would have only a 15% chance of success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
"If they have a chance to fully take over Bab al-Mandab, they won't hesitate for a second," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“There is a chance of heavier rain occurring near any thunderstorms that form,” the weather service warned in its forecast discussion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
It would be Clare’s only chance to save her.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The CME Group's FedWatch tool put the chances of an increase at more than 56 percent after figures Friday showed the US economy created far more jobs than expected in August.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
If you can imagine it folded into a strata, gratin or savory bread pudding, chances are it has a home here, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Developers can’t protect assets from the most severe grade of tornadoes, but rely on the fact that the chances of one hitting any particular location is very low, according to Clark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, Putin told an international economic forum on Thursday that "there are chances" a peace deal could be reached.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I would say the chances are absolutely zero.”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
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 British director Titley said she chanced upon the reality show and reached out to Nasubi because she felt no one had ever told his side of the story.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
“An old maester, a singer, and a young steward. They were escorting a wildling girl and her child to Oldtown. I do not suppose you chanced to encounter them?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He had heard stories of people chancing upon diamonds and hoped that he too would get lucky one day.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
But this being the year after a deep playoff run and the back half of the relievers’ injury-filled careers, the Nationals aren’t chancing it.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2020
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
“You’re always chancing it when you come back,” Romo said.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2015
Was it worth chancing it, or should he double back?
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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