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.