chance
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But if he gets a chance, it will be instructive for United's coaches to see how he copes with senior opponents.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Artificial intelligence offers us the chance to understand humanity in ways hitherto beyond our reach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Money markets are pricing in about a 30 percent chance of a rate increase, according to Bloomberg.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
This bullpen session was a chance for Ohtani to test his knee, which before the injection seemed to be aggravated by pitching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“I’ve never seen this place before,” Chitto said, giving Harry a chance to settle down from whatever was happening in her head.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
SoFi Stadium will be the site of Super Bowl LXI, and the Rams made several blockbuster offseason moves to increase their chances of playing in it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Your chances of running into a marketer at a neighborhood bar are slim but never zero.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
And the bottoms are often rounded, increasing your chances of slipping as you get in or out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Given the large U.S. deficit and the historic spending spree expected for the AI buildout, “there will be plenty of chances to buy at higher yields in longer-duration debt,” Payne said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Of course it is! But I want them to have better chances in life.”
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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 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
Gehr started making films in the 1960s after serving in the Army and landing in New York, where he chanced upon the work by the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, a titan of the art.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
On July 3, 1908, archaeologists excavating the ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“I was chancing my arm seeing if I could get flying lessons,” Jean-Baptiste continues, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
If chancing the arm sounds simple, look what happened when Zak Crawley tried the same.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 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
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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