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Economists recognize that estimating multiplier effects is a chancy business under the best of circumstances.
Besides, transporting animals on ocean voyages is a chancy proposition full of danger for the animals and those assigned to care for them.
That has proved as chancy as standing below a seagull and scarcely more rewarding.
Predicting tomorrow's weather is chancy business, let alone a five-day forecast.
The restoration to favour of forgotten books and authors is always a chancy business.
When the construct is killed, reconnecting my consciousness with my body is a very chancy business.
The fungus doesn't kill the tree, it just reddens the wood, and what this means is that finding a good red myrtle is a very chancy business.
It was chancy, but even Brenda knew that taking risks was all part of the fun of living one's life.
The natural souring of unpasteurized milk is a chancy business.
It should be said that even with the dilution of the Japanese forces it was still a very chancy thing that the Americans prevailed so successfully.
They emerge from a chancy process of socio-cultural evolution, and it's by no means bound to happen.
Three years after the date of this amendment, seizure remains a chancy thing and presents a procedural complexity.
Today the contribution of the university in the creation and invention of means of existence in Africa proves to be chancy.
You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
But intelligence-gathering has always been a chancy business.
My far-flung net of significant others helps me to find meaning and purpose in a random and chancy world, and I hope I reciprocate to some degree.
Studio executives have long known that such films are chancy.
It is always a chancy affair to resort to authorities of the past for advice on things which they could possibly have known in a better way then we do.
The cowpunchers Lin and Chancy Bryce seek shelter from the long arm from the law by earning a living working as cowpunchers at a widow's ranch.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Matron Kowalski on night duty had a habit of turning that light off and on at chancy intervals after midnight.
The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days.
You know what a hazardous, chancy, short-lived thing is the fashion of a woman.
It was a chancy plan at best, and would probably break down long before any visit could be made to the city.
A dark road, pitted with shell holes and slimy with mud, is chancy.
Hopalong smiled, turned to Buck and related his conversation with chancy.
To get a light in this way was the most chancy thing in the world.
Hugh de Moreville is a man whom it is not chancy to meddle with.
Even more impressively, she deploys analytically chancy topics, such as social disciplining, with exemplary caution and good sense.
By all right and reason, it was the Royal Geographical that should have appealed to him, but men are as chancy as children in their choice of playthings.
The Chancy Antidote is most likely to cure Victim's headache and save Victim's life, apart from a one-in-a-billion chance that it does nothing.
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