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

But as this chancy viewing geometry suggests, most planets will never transit as seen from Earth, which renders them effectively invisible to this workhorse detection technique.

From Scientific American • Oct. 6, 2023

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

Lunch was now out of the question, so was breakfast; and having pap ’n vleis became a sporadic, chancy luxury.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane