chance
noun
the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.
has chanced
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present perfectof chance (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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
But, of course, the parent requires a mate, and unless this mate has chanced to hit on the same line of variation, it cannot be supposed that it will be transmitted.
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John S.J. Gerard
So Raghu's youngest hope, restored by heavenly herbs, burns with more than wonted ardour, wonders a moment what has chanced and then, all on fire for glory, rushes to the fight.
From Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by J. S. Zemin
