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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The odds on Tuesday for one rate hike in September were at 60%, while a second hike at the Fed’s December meeting was chanced at 36.7%, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
On my way out of town, I chanced to pass by the faded gingerbread house I’d seen when I’d first come to Manifest.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
