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Recent Examples of chancy
Lifelong recommendations based on studies of roughly 50 patients and for no longer than three months seem a bit chancy.
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WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
The early concerts have had a biting, chancy energy.
—New York Times, 21 June 2018
In a curious twist, Gunderson takes the story in an extremely chancy direction during the show’s final minutes.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2018
George Washington's chancy nighttime retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan was a kind of Colonial-era Dunkirk.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
In the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, Jeff Lucas watched a driver plow through the brown and turbulent waters in what had momentarily seemed to be a chancy undertaking.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
The point is that reporting on alleged facts that won’t take place for a decade or more in the future is chancy at best.
—Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 July 2017
Steve Jobs was making what was at the time an extraordinarily chancy wager.
—Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017
Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
The early concerts have had a biting, chancy energy.
—New York Times, 21 June 2018
In a curious twist, Gunderson takes the story in an extremely chancy direction during the show’s final minutes.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2018
George Washington's chancy nighttime retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan was a kind of Colonial-era Dunkirk.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
In the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, Jeff Lucas watched a driver plow through the brown and turbulent waters in what had momentarily seemed to be a chancy undertaking.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
The point is that reporting on alleged facts that won’t take place for a decade or more in the future is chancy at best.
—Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 July 2017
Steve Jobs was making what was at the time an extraordinarily chancy wager.
—Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017
Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chancy
Adjective
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The timing was fortuitous for the Dodgers, who needed a shortstop in light of Betts' injury.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Trump's first Super Bowl back in office coinciding with Fox's broadcast this year is fortuitous, given the president's friendly relationship with the network.—
Sara Fischer,
Axios,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Marta González de la Rubia, an archivist at Loewe who gave me a tour of the facility, told me that in the company’s early decades the retention of samples had been haphazard, and that this was especially true with the company’s packaging.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The vibrations felt more haphazard, with less granular effects, but loud shots were still met with strong motor bumps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Choosing a random cabin location Choose your cabin location with careful consideration and a strategic approach.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Cherry rues the random nature of these instances of trauma, which explode only to be forgotten five minutes later, subsumed beneath the next crisis.—
Sam Worley,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The review found that many of the deaths reported to VAERS claiming to be linked to the MMR included children who has serious underlying medical conditions or had deaths that were unrelated to the vaccine, including accidental deaths.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Natasha Lyonne plays an accidental case-of-the-week murder solver with the uncanny ability to know when people are lying — no earth-bending required.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In addition to the inadvertent possibility, there is also the act by a user that explicitly tells generative AI to promote a particular addiction.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Some systems rely on very old programming languages, Flick said in her affidavit, and are vulnerable to being broken by inadvertent user error.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Both seem incidental to his 47% Hard Hits for the past five years.—
Gene McCaffrey,
The Athletic,
11 Mar. 2025
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Anyone finding themselves attracted to him was otherwise incidental.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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On Tuesday night, 800 lucky Goose fans snaked they way through the Shed at Hudson Yards to enter a world where music and art fused in a swirling, electric dreamscape.—
Caroline Tell,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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With the lucky number five rounding out our present year, does this mean we’re also poised for the debut of some brand new collections?—
Cait Bazemore,
Robb Report,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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What is a bad thing is actually the sudden, unplanned nature.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2025
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The capsule carried four astronauts, including NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who spent an unplanned 280 days on the International Space Station after experiencing issues with the Boeing Starliner during its first crewed test flight last June.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Chancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chancy. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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