Sentence examples for are chance from inspiring English sources
verb
To happen by chance, to occur.
- It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
"Well," he says, "that's because they are chance.
It turns out that these overlaps are chance but not exactly a coincidence.
There are Chance and Community Chest cards and all the currency is credit-card-style plastic.
There are chance encounters, such as Cocker and Doyle's, with objects that might change you.
Picón's suggestion that many antiquities are chance finds of a farmer and a plow rather than the product of concerted illegal excavation is, archeologists say, a convenient fiction.
I gulp a little at the analysis Ben offers — that the Russian system no longer produces defensemen of world class — since two of the defensemen who were supposed to be in that class, Andrei Markov and Alexei Emelin, both are (chance to use the word) stalwarts of the Montreal Canadiens' rear guard, which I guess tells you something about the Habs.
The rationale for the Kappa coefficient and other similar measures of agreement is that they are chance-corrected, in the sense that they attempt to allow for the fact that for discrete or ordinal outcomes there will be a non-zero probability pe that two raters will agree on a sample simply by guessing, thus making the observed probability of agreement po appear artificially high.
The three approaches are chance-constrained programming (CCOpt), Monte Carlo sampling-based solution of the uncertain problem (MCOpt), and deterministic optimization based on worst-case assumptions (DetOpt).
Asif says it was "chance".
