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Examples of chancy in a Sentence
Building your own home is a chancy business.
Opening a new restaurant can be chancy.
Recent Examples of chancy from the Web
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In the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, Jeff Lucas watched a driver plow through the brown and turbulent waters in what had momentarily seemed to be a chancy undertaking.
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The point is that reporting on alleged facts that won’t take place for a decade or more in the future is chancy at best.
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Steve Jobs was making what was at the time an extraordinarily chancy wager.
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George Washington's chancy nighttime retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan was a kind of Colonial-era Dunkirk.
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Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too.
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First Known Use of chancy
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CHANCY Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of chancy for English Language Learners
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: possibly having a bad result : involving chance or risk
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