"exploit a chance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to take advantage of an opportunity or to make the most out of a situation. Example: After years of hard work, Sarah finally got the chance to pitch her business idea to a panel of investors. She knew she had to exploit this chance and give it her all if she wanted to secure funding for her company.
Even so, the congressional election may give the scattered opposition a chance to exploit a slowing economy and rising inflation.
The Galaxy's back line will have their hands full again with Cooper and probably Solli, but the Galaxy should have some chances to exploit a shaky Red Bull midfield and bad defense.
But these experts say that neighboring states like Syria and Iran are itching to exploit any chance to begin upsetting American plans to create a client state on their borders, a chance that would only materialize if the Americans failed to deliver on their promises.
Russia is itself in serious economic trouble, but its leaders remain keen to exploit any chance to reassert their influence in the region.
The jump-jet version of the JSF that Britain is buying will not start test flights until next year, and the cost of the American-led programme is rising.The Royal Air Force and the army will exploit any chance to delay or cancel the carriers.
But the timing of the controversy gave the elder Cheneys an especially good chance to exploit an emotion I'm not sure they understand themselves: empathy.
Karl Frisch, of Media Matters, said that his site's success has been the way it's given a thousand voices in the wilderness the chance to exploit an "echo-chamber" of their own, one that aggressively pushes out, and back.
His woeful failure to pull the trigger made you wonder what Javier Hernandez was doing on the bench, a question that could only be reinforced by the fact that the young Mexican later came so close to exploiting a far more difficult chance than either of those served up so perfectly wrapped to the Bulgarian.
It is no accident that certain citizens, exposed to a newly open and immediate platform, exploit it as a chance to violate civility.
Influential figures around Ed Miliband are urging him to exploit the chance to embarrass Cameron by backing a referendum, but Tuesday's shadow cabinet meeting was expected to endorse the policy of opposing the amendment.
