Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without chance or opportunity; hopeless; unavailing: as, a chanceless struggle.
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- adjective Achieved without taking
chances
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Examples
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Instead, England needed to realise that another day of chanceless Australian run-making and it would be themselves batting last on a deteriorating pitch and not Australia, a state of affairs far more likely to galvanise them into action than misty memories of four years ago.
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Another part is charting the evolution of their romance, which is fraught with chance -- or chanceless -- meetings and apparent double-crosses.
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Sachin's chanceless innings on the first two days of the test.
Archive 2004-04-01 Chirayu 2004
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Sachin's chanceless innings on the first two days of the test.
April 2004 Chirayu 2004
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Woakes, who averages 49 and has been in excellent form since recovering from a shin injury in May, reached a chanceless half century, from 86 balls with seven fours, before driving Keedy to short extra cover.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Three months after he was dropped from South Africa's Test side in October last year, Petersen was picked again and scored a chanceless century against Sri Lanka at Newlands.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012
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Cook's hearty share has so far brought him 26 fours from 339 balls, in a chanceless eight-hour stay which has underpinned England's resounding reply to the tourists' first-day 224 all out.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He was and still is one of the most experienced and accomplished batsmen in the country and proved as much with a chanceless century against Victoria last week.
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Cook's hearty share has so far brought him 26 fours from 339 balls, in a chanceless eight-hour stay which has underpinned England's resounding reply to the tourists' first-day 224 all out.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Cook's hearty share has so far brought him 26 fours from 339 balls, in a chanceless eight-hour stay which has underpinned England's resounding reply to the tourists' first-day 224 all out.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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