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by any chance

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Used to ask a question more politely

    • Are you by any chance looking for a new staff member?
    • You wouldn't like to come, by any chance?

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, any, chance.

    • A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for by any chance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA