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RISKS |
Chances |
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ODDS |
Chances |
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OUTSIDERS |
100-to-1 chances |
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FLUKES |
Lucky chances |
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EVENS |
Betting chances but not odds |
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PROBABILITIES |
Quietly fleece talents of chances |
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ATODDS |
Conflicting back, thanks to betting chances |
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OPPORTUNITIES |
Chances are, they knock on your door and lead to favourable openings |
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BAILOUTS |
Strange bias about lout getting chances to be released from custody so often |
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CHANCE |
To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with
it as object. |
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VENTURE |
To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the
chances. |
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TIP |
A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse
race, or the like. |
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KILL |
To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill
the sale of a book. |
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RUN |
To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the
risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below. |
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CRIBBAGE |
A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in
which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great
variety of chances. |
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RECKON |
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of
chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective
clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again. |
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HANDICAP |
...ity,
strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance,
weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitor... |
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PROBABILITY |
Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the
doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to
the whole number of ch... |
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BOOM |
... noisy
excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the
demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspi... |
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DOCTRINE |
...th; as, the doctrine of atoms; the
doctrine of chances. ... |