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How to sign: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day";
Similiar / Same: find, bump, encounter, happen
How to sign: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
"When you buy these stocks you are gambling";
Similiar / Same: gamble, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance, risk, hazard
Categories: try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
Within this category: go for broke, luck it
How to sign: a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
"what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning";
Similiar / Same: probability
Categories: measure, quantity, amount
Within this category: conditional probability, cross section, exceedance, fair chance, fat chance, joint probability, risk, risk
