Example Sentences
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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's a civil servant turned novelist who "chanced his arm" with one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
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
The British director Titley said she chanced upon the reality show and reached out to Nasubi because she felt no one had ever told his side of the story.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024
Ai’s face was badly frostbitten this morning, nose, ears, chin all dead gray when I chanced to look at him.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
