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v. Simple past tense and past participle of chance.

adj. Discovered by chance.

"J.R.R. Tolkien, on the other hand, was so very much a man of letters that he did not even attempt to publish any of his fiction until a reader at Allen and Unwin chanced to hear of The Hobbit and pried the typescript out of his hands."

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advances    dances    enhances    expanses    finances