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Discover LudwigThe phrase "mere chance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which luck played a major role in a certain outcome. For example, "He was able to get the job due to mere chance rather than his qualifications."
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Such events seem not to be due to mere chance.
It appears to be a statistically significant move, not one caused by mere chance.
MY love affair with Paris's 15th arrondissement began, as love affairs often do, by mere chance.
And by mere chance, the industry chose chlorine as the global standard.
"I can tell you as a statistician, the probability that that is mere chance is extremely small".
Nor is it mere chance that the Mirzaianov trial and arrest was postponed until Clinton returned to America.
Some of them saw more than mere chance in the fact that assassination day was also crucifixion day.
The results provide little evidence to dismiss the observed success rates as being attributable to mere chance or good fortune.
This leads us to ask what, besides mere chance, might explain these patterns of different outcomes within class groups.
No, it was mere chance (a husband who's a mechanic?) that allowed me to say, "Maria, I have a car for you".
The mere chance that the French might vote again is enough to give Brussels the vapours.Or consider the position of Britain's Tony Blair.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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