chance it

1. Take the risk or hazard of, as in I don't know if there's a later bus but let's chance it. The verb to chance alone was so used for a time, as in Let's just chance the rain—I'm not buying a new umbrella! [Late 1800s] Also see take a chance.

Example Sentences

Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Assn., the nation’s largest teachers union, accused the administration of “taking every chance it can to hack away at the very protections and services our students need.”

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“Mr. Harley-Dickinson used the velocipede to run an errand, but there is a chance it may be stolen property, and now I fear he is being held by the authorities.”

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“There’s a chance it still won’t work. The light doesn’t necessarily mean anything.”

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But ultimately the fate of the AI trade and the wider market lies with the Fed—with the chance it will pause its rate-cutting cycle in December now seen at just over 50%, according to the CME FedWatch tool.

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If they can take that chance, it will give them confidence for the rest of the series.

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