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chance event

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Noun1.chance eventchance event - anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
fortuity, accident, stroke
happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
hap - an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"
happy chance, break, good luck - an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break"
coincidence, happenstance - an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
lottery - something that is regarded as a chance event; "the election was just a lottery to them"


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That chance event brought the kids, who had always been involved in theater in Oklahoma, to Los Angeles this past January.
STARS OVER KINDERGARTEN KIDS MAY HAVE FACE, TALENT, BUT HOLLYWOOD IS ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
According to this scenario, the time needed to freeze a given volume of water--say, 1 liter dispersed into a fine mist--is independent of the size of the individual droplets because the formation of a seed particle is a chance event.
Clearing up how cloud droplets freeze. (Outside-In) by Perkins, S. / Science News
Opponents of this book's thesis argue that, if there were billions and billions of universes and an infinite time, all these chance events could have happened, and happened simultaneously.
Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe. (Book Review) by Kennedy, Leonard / Catholic Insight
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