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Meanings of chance event in English

Portuguese
coincidência
Catalan
atzar
Spanish
casualidad

Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause.

coincidência
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Examples for "accident"
Examples for "accident"
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A good result for the county is no longer considered an accident.
The Irish Times
2
The accident happened just outside the town of Weert, local police said.
The Irish Times
3
Vision Zero is a plan that rejects road accident deaths as 'acceptable'.
The Guardian
4
Prevent another accident On busy roads one accident often leads to another.
The South African
5
There was no official word yet on possible causes of the accident.
Reuters
1
Her father had suffered a stroke; the family home was in crisis.
The Guardian
2
Main outcome measure: Cardiac and stroke mortality were our main outcome measures.
Pubmed
3
Pfeiffer has experienced some health difficulties in recent years, including stroke-like symptoms.
Reuters
4
Red meat consumption was associated with increased stroke risk, particularly ischemic events.
Pubmed
5
However, its impact is clearly inherent to the local stroke network conditions.
Pubmed
1
And in some cases consideration only increases the fortuity of its results.
The Mountebank
2
There was a certain air of forced fortuity in his manner.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
3
As to Winston's unlucky hit this morning, it was mere fortuity.
At Last: A Novel
4
That it would do so indefinitely and with no strings attached was a downright outlandish fortuity.
Financial Crime and Corruption
5
Superficially it was a thing of utter fortuity.
The Boss of Little Arcady
Usage of chance event in English
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Your relationship with her is not exactly a chance event.
Fire With Fire
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And it all revolves around this chance event or fate - finding the photograph.
Reuters
3
Oedipus is not a chance event, and this is how I built my character, Panou said.
Reuters
4
Through some chance event.
Spiral
5
A chance event enticed Hodgkin into the world of pathological anatomy and led him toward the disease that would bear his name.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
6
This serendipity is culturally important -we have a collective investment in the idea that love is a chance event, and often it is.
Wired
7
He spoke as if their meeting had been some kind of chance event, but he had deliberately revealed his existence on her wedding day.
The viscount and the virgin
8
Chance events, it says, can result in multiple deaths or life-changing injuries.
The Irish Times
9
Chance events that were stronger than I was created my confusion.
The eye of the leopard
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When a preponderance of chance events has occurred unfavorably, you've got bad luck.
Accidental Death
11
They never learn theories of randomness, or pick up complex ideas about chance events.
BBC
12
On the other hand, a talent that manipulates chance events is bound to be chancy.
Accidental Death
13
Scientifically speaking, future chance events are by definition chance.
Accidental Death
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Survival partly determined by chance events.
The Lost World
15
For twenty years he has worked at shaping his life, yet he has remained in Africa because of chance events.
The eye of the leopard
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For him, luck refers to the future, and you've got bad luck when future chance events won't go your way.
Accidental Death
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