has chanced
- present perfect of chance (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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"But in down-to-earth William and nice, middle-class Kate, maybe the monarchy has chanced upon a marriage that can help it reinvent itself."
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2011
So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jutta comes home one afternoon, pasted with dust, to discover that big Claudia Forster has chanced upon a paper bakery box sealed with gold tape.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Anyone to whom it has chanced to hear a folk-song sung in its own home will understand what is meant.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
The first roll contains the story of all that has chanced to our family up to the anniversary of my dear Hena's birthday, that day which also saw her die.
From The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death by De Leon, Solon
