chance of survival

noun phrase

: likelihood that someone will continue to live in spite of present-day difficult conditions (such as being ill or injured)

Examples of chance of survival in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The stroke impacted the movement on the right side of his body and left him on life support with a 1% chance of survival. — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026

Doctors told the new parents, Fahmida and Shaharier Islamm, that their son Safir had only a 10% chance of survival at birth. — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026

When poultry get infected, there is a near-zero chance of survival, so governments across the world have embarked on mass slaughter campaigns in infected farms to slow the spread. — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

Witnessing a parasite and human sharing a single body leads her to wonder whether coexistence might offer her species a better chance of survival than conflict. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 July 2026

Rhymes for chance of survival

• archival
• arrival
• revival
• conjunctival
• rival
• subconjunctival