Thesaurus / chance
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Few of those who say they are “probably” going to vote for one candidate say there is a “chance” they would vote for the other candidate, suggesting that some of these “swing” voters may not vote on Election Day, the pollsters said.
ELECTION LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP RETURNS TO WISCONSIN; BIDEN TO FACE LIVE AUDIENCE AT TOWN HALLCOLBY ITKOWITZ, FELICIA SONMEZ, JOHN WAGNERSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIn Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court voted on a strict party line, with the court’s two Republicans partially dissenting, writing in a separate opinion that the Green Party ticket should have been given a chance to fix its paperwork.
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT STRIKES GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL TICKET FROM BALLOT, CLEARING THE WAY FOR MAIL BALLOTS TO BE SENT OUTAMY GARDNERSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe news was bleak—Paul would need a kidney transplant if he had any chance of living a long life.
A WELCOME LIFELINEWASHINGTON REGIONAL TRANSPLANT COMMUNITYSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEClearly, some state polls missed the mark in 2016, leading forecasts to assume he had less of a chance of winning than he did.
IF VOTERS ARE WARY OF STATING SUPPORT FOR TRUMP IN POLLS, WHY DOES HE OUTPERFORM GOP SENATE CANDIDATES?PHILIP BUMPSEPTEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWhen the NHL playoffs began, the bookmakers didn’t give the Dallas Stars much of a chance to win the Stanley Cup.
TEAMS DON’T WIN THE STANLEY CUP WITH A GOAL DEFICIT. CAN THE DALLAS STARS CHANGE THAT?TERRENCE DOYLESEPTEMBER 16, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTAs of Monday, FiveThirtyEight forecast the odds of Biden winning at 75%, while The Economist forecast the Democratic nominee having a 84% chance of winning the electoral college.
TO WIN IN NOVEMBER, TRUMP WOULD NEED TO PULL OFF AN EVEN BIGGER UPSET IN 2020 THAN HE DID IN 2016LANCE LAMBERTSEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNEThat’s where Allied came in, offering the rare chance to use even warmer and lighter 1,000-fill down.
WHY WE'LL SEE MORE 1,000-FILL DOWN JACKETS THIS FALLRYAN WICHELNSSEPTEMBER 12, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEIf the winds pick up as much as expected, chances are they won’t.
A CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY LOSES ITS HEARTMIKE SILVERSTEINSEPTEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEIf you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSInstead of giving you a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to get out of a mistake."
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWORDS RELATED TO CHANCE
- believes
- calculates
- chances
- conjectures
- dares says
- deduces
- deems
- divines
- estimates
- fancies
- fathoms
- goes out on a limb
- guesstimates
- happens upon
- hazards
- hypothesizes
- infers
- judges
- jumps to a conclusion
- lumps it
- opines
- penetrates
- picks
- postulates
- predicates
- predicts
- presumes
- pretends
- reasons
- reckons
- selects
- size up
- solves
- speculates
- suggests
- supposes
- surmises
- surveys
- suspects
- takes a shot at
- takes a stab at
- theorizes
- thinks
- thinks likely
- ventures
- works out
- accidental
- aimless
- all over the map
- any old way
- any which way
- arbitrary
- careless
- casual
- chance
- designless
- desultory
- devil-may-care
- disorderly
- disorganized
- erratic
- half-assed
- helter-skelter
- hit-or-miss
- incidental
- indiscriminate
- irregular
- loose
- offhand
- purposeless
- random
- reckless
- slapdash
- slipshod
- spontaneous
- sudden
- unconcerned
- unconscious
- unconsidered
- uncoordinated
- unexpected
- unmethodical
- unorganized
- unpremeditated
- unsystematic
- unthinking
- willy-nilly
- appear
- arise
- arrive
- be found
- become a fact
- become known
- become of
- befall
- betide
- bump
- chance
- come about
- come after
- come into being
- come into existence
- come off
- crop up
- develop
- down
- ensue
- eventuate
- fall
- follow
- go on
- hit
- issue
- light
- luck
- materialize
- meet
- pass
- present itself
- proceed
- recur
- result
- shake
- smoke
- spring
- stumble
- stumble upon
- supervene
- take effect
- take place
- transpire
- turn out
- turn up
- what goes
- appeared
- arose
- arrived
- be found
- became a fact
- became of
- become knew
- befell
- betided
- bumped
- came about
- came after
- came into existence
- came into was
- came off
- chanced
- crop up
- developed
- downed
- ensued
- eventuated
- fell
- followed
- hit
- issued
- lit
- lucked
- materialized
- met
- passed
- presented itself
- proceeded
- recurred
- resulted
- shook
- smoked
- sprang
- stumbled
- stumbled upon
- supervened
- took effect
- took place
- transpired
- turned out
- turned up
- went on
- what went
- appears
- arises
- arrives
- be finds
- become knows
- becomes a fact
- becomes of
- befalls
- betides
- bumps
- chances
- comes about
- comes after
- comes into existence
- comes into is
- comes off
- crop up
- develops
- downs
- ensues
- eventuates
- falls
- follows
- goes on
- hits
- issues
- lights
- lucks
- materializes
- meets
- passes
- presents itself
- proceeds
- recurs
- results
- shakes
- smokes
- springs
- stumbles
- stumbles upon
- supervenes
- takes effect
- takes place
- transpires
- turns out
- turns up
- what goes
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