CHANCES (UPON) Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

chances (upon)

verb

present tense third-person singular of chance (upon)

as in encounters

to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face chanced upon my archenemy as I rounded a corner

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as in finds

to come upon unexpectedly or by chance I chanced upon your mother in the grocery store yesterday

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An operational problem is resolved before the customer encounters it.

— Ozan Ozerk, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
The country also encounters difficulties in transmitting and distributing electricity, despite substantial power-generation capacity.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of encounters

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To cure his sickly daughter, the biotechnologist Raúl finds the cure… inside Lidia (Cindy Galán), her nanny.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
The ballad finds Fontaines’ Grian Chatten and Rosalía trading lines over a moody acoustic strum that repeatedly swells with strings and clattering drums.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026

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The most important job of the General Assembly is to adopt a state budget, in a timely manner, that meets the moment and invests in the future.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026
On the prison bus, Thomas meets Lisa, his con-artist partner-to-be from episode one.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

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