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

Problems are inevitable, though the path to overcoming them is uncertain, since medical interventions can be chancy.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2023

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

That was chancy; the fire she'd remem-bered seeing had burnt down to embers, and she heard voices as she was blowing on the coals.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin