Synonyms for take a chance
take a chance

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1. gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chanceverb

   take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

   "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"

   Synonyms:
   pretend, encounter, happen, guess, run a risk, chance, gamble, bump, adventure, venture, hazard, jeopardize, stake, take chances, find, put on the line, lay on the line, risk

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How to use take a chance in a sentence?

1. Brian Snitker:

   We just didn’t want to take a chance.

2. D. Morgan:

   If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.

3. Edgar Bergen:

   Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance

4. Michael J. Gelb:

   Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

5. Emily Erbelding:

   Because we are in a race here to beat back this epidemic and a vaccine is very important, people might be willing to take a chance on just going quickly into phase two, so the 18 months would rely upon speeding things up.