pure chance

Frequency: 8.822.4 per million words

happening completely by luck, without a plan

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Examples (10)

  • It was pure chance that they met at the airport.
  • The discovery of penicillin was a matter of pure chance.
  • Their meeting was no accident; it was pure chance.
  • He won the lottery by pure chance, not by any strategy.
  • Finding that rare book in a small shop was pure chance.
  • The coincidence of their birthdays falling on the same day was pure chance.
  • She believes that success in life is often down to pure chance.
  • Don't mistake luck for skill; sometimes it's just pure chance.
  • The fact that we were both looking for the same apartment at the same time seemed like pure chance.
  • Many scientific breakthroughs happen through pure chance combined with observation.