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
This sword which I hold in my hand belonged to my great-grandfather, who was killed in the first crusade, and it has chanced to become your property in some way or other.
From A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide by Walter Crane
When excited, it is not easily appeased, and is exceedingly tenacious of injury, always showing great fierceness whenever any one approaches who has chanced to provoke it.
From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey
