How to Use stand a chance of in a Sentence
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Devin Booker didn’t stand a chance of being voted an All-Star starter for the first time.
—Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
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Nothing on the current pay-TV landscape would stand a chance of coming close.
—Washington Post, 22 June 2021
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The proposals that stand a chance of getting through both chambers are limited in scope.
—Abby Vesoulis, Time, 3 June 2022
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So in what market could an emerging hedge fund stand a chance of making outsized returns?
—Guan Zhen Tan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
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The splatter screen, on the other hand, has fine mesh holes big enough to allow steam to escape, but small enough that oil doesn’t stand a chance of going anywhere.
—Emma Wartzman, Bon Appétit, 4 May 2021
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While neither is likely to get the sort of reception that has greeted Weird, both projects stand a chance of showing up on the cultural radar.
—Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
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Employees left out of the business school experience often don't stand a chance of moving into the C-suite in years to come.
—Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021
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Fulham, like Watford and Norwich before it, has to spend enough money to stand a chance of remaining in the Premier League, but not spend so much that — in the event of failure — the club’s future is endangered.
—New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
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Pay it forward after tourism’s devastating hiatus and help mom-and-pop businesses stand a chance of survival.
—Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020
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The idea was to generate concepts that might actually stand a chance of getting approved and built — or at least serve as a functional basis for future designs.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
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Targeted policies such as increasing funding for Pell grants would help reduce the number of low-income students who have to take on debt to attend college—and stand a chance of passing.
—WSJ, 1 June 2021
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Are these formats fair and do the newcomers actually ever stand a chance of claiming victory?
—Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 13 July 2022
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An aspiring financial analyst, Opafola has to invest consistently over the next 15 years to stand a chance of achieving this dream.
—Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2022
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Simon needs approval from Kiffmeyer's committee for any bills to stand a chance of passing the divided Legislature.
—Stephen Montemayor Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
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Psilocybin certainly doesn’t act as a human repellent—to stand a chance of overdosing, a human would have to eat around 1,000 times more mushrooms than required for an average trip.
—Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
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The intensely competitive housing market has, in many cases, required buyers to use every available resource to stand a chance of winning.
—Sean Clark, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
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In the coming years, one of the countless competing services might even stand a chance of toppling the industry leader, but that probably won’t happen as long as most people believe that Netflix has the best selection of original content.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 Apr. 2021
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Younger composers who resisted this doctrine, preferring evolution to revolution, did not stand a chance of gaining attention.
—Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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