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by chance
Idioms and Phrases
Casually, accidentally, as in I ran into Bill purely by chance . [c. 1300] Also see by coincidence .Example Sentences
It was only when by chance she shared a taxi in Moscow with violinist Gidon Kremer in the late 1970s that her life changed.
The family was lucky to hear about an experimental trial being carried out in London - just by chance - when they were at a conference about the eye condition.
He became a TV writer almost by chance.
Instead he was home after a doctor's appointment and it was only by chance that he spotted a pair of feet on the ground in his back garden.
Mr Whiting, whose sister is a police officer, said he was only there by chance after taking his girlfriend to the A&E unit at nearby Warrington Hospital.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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