happening+by+chance

  • 91lucky — adjective (luckier; est) Date: 15th century 1. having good luck 2. happening by chance ; fortuitous 3. producing or resulting in good by chance ; favorable 4. seeming to bring good luck < a lucky rabbit s foot > • luckiness …

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  • 92United States presidential election, 2004 timeline — The following is a timeline of events during the 2004 U.S. presidential election:2002* May 31 Vermont Governor Howard B. Dean III forms a presidential exploratory committee. * December 1 John F. Kerry, U.S. senator from Massachusetts announces&#8230; …

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  • 93Disufenton sodium — Systematic (IUPAC) name Disodium 4 [(Z) (tert butyl oxidoazaniumylidene)methyl]benzene 1,3 disulfonate Clinical data Pregnancy cat …

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  • 94bher- — I. bher 1 To carry; also to bear children. Derivatives include birth, fertile, suffer, furtive, and metaphor. 1. a. (i) bear1, from Old English beran …

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  • 95fortune — [13] Latin fors meant ‘chance’ (it came ultimately from Indo European *bhrtis, a derivative of the same base as produced English bear ‘carry’, and hence signified etymologically ‘that which fate brings along’). Formed from fors was fortuna, which …

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  • 96fortuitous — 1650s, from L. fortuitus happening by chance, casual, accidental, from forte by chance, ablative of fors chance (related to fortuna; see FORTUNE (Cf. fortune)). It means accidental, undesigned not fortunate. Earlier in this sense was fortuit&#8230; …

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  • 97fortuitous — adjective 1) a fortuitous resemblance Syn: chance, adventitious, unexpected, unanticipated, unpredictable, unforeseen, unlooked for, serendipitous, casual, incidental, coincidental, random, accidental, inadvertent, unintentional, unintended …

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  • 98casual — /ˈkæʒjuəl / (say kazhyoohuhl) adjective 1. happening by chance: a casual meeting; *first appointed to the Senate in 1997 to fill a casual vacancy but won his seat at the 1998 election –aap news, 2000. 2. unpremeditated; offhand; without any&#8230; …

  • 99probability — [n] likelihood of something happening anticipation, chance, chances, conceivability, contingency, credibility, expectation, feasibility, hazard, liability, likeliness, odds, outside chance*, plausibility, possibility, practicability, prayer,&#8230; …

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  • 100fortune — [13] Latin fors meant ‘chance’ (it came ultimately from Indo European *bhrtis, a derivative of the same base as produced English bear ‘carry’, and hence signified etymologically ‘that which fate brings along’). Formed from fors was fortuna, which …

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