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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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take a chance

Part of Speechverb

To risk doing something; to try something risky.

In a Sentence

“He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist.”

Origin

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Synonyms

roll the dicetake a flyertake a gambletake a risk

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Related Words

adventureriskhazardchancegamblerun a risktake chances

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