chance
noun
the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.
chanced
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past participleof chance.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof chance.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
chancenounthe absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.
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
Motie, having earlier hit Rashid's hat-trick ball for six, chanced his arm with a counter-attack and ended up adding 91 in 68 balls with Alzarri Joseph.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
Walter Shawlee chanced upon a slide rule from high school while looking through a drawer at his home in Kelowna, British Columbia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Koffi chanced a look at him as she and Mama made another lap.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
