Idiom
chance upon
Meaning
To find (someone or something) by chance.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I happened to chance upon a rare coin in the park.”
“While walking through the old market, I chanced upon a beautiful painting that I had been looking for for years.”
“During his research in the dusty archives, the historian chanced upon a collection of letters that revealed the truth about the forgotten king.”
Examples
simple
“I happened to chance upon a rare coin in the park.”
contextual
“While walking through the old market, I chanced upon a beautiful painting that I had been looking for for years.”
complex
“During his research in the dusty archives, the historian chanced upon a collection of letters that revealed the truth about the forgotten king.”
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