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[ verb ] find unexpectedly

Examples

: "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb" "she struck a goldmine" "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

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find

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[ verb ] find unexpectedly

Examples

"the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb" "she struck a goldmine" "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

Used in print

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

After_all , he had n't happened_upon us in_that second floor hall without warning .

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find discovery

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