chance
noun
the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.
will chance
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future tenseof chance.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Tadpoles become toads, and, in tales such as this one, metaphorical toads can be — whether through will, chance, or wishes — transformed into something else.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2025
Blake, a landmark ruling the court issued the following month that will chance criminal justice in Washington forever.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2021
“You have such faith in your people, I will chance it this once.”
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Come, let me make an end, I will chance it.
From Dawn by Henry Rider Haggard
Mayhap some aspiring dust-man, in whose mind smolders untaught genius, will chance upon it.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
