BY CHANCE as ADVERB

  1. Meaning
    • without advance planning
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    • they met accidentally
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  2. Meaning
    • in an incidental manner
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    • these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models
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  3. Meaning
    • by accident
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    • betrayed by a word haply overheard
  4. Meaning
    • through chance, “To sleep, perchance to dream..”
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