"by any chance" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "by any chance",
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      "expansion": "by any chance",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Are you by any chance looking for a new staff member?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Possibly; perhaps."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "perchance"
        },
        {
          "word": "by chance"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "sattumoisin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "sattumalta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "par hasard"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "vielleicht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "esetleg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "slučajno",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "случайно"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "por algún casual"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "časom",
          "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
          "word": "часом"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "Charles C. Abbott, Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Natural History (page 599)",
          "text": "A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows."
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, any, chance."
      ],
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        [
          "chance",
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  ],
  "word": "by any chance"
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        {
          "text": "Are you by any chance looking for a new staff member?"
        }
      ],
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        "Possibly; perhaps."
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        {
          "word": "perchance"
        },
        {
          "word": "by chance"
        }
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          "ref": "Charles C. Abbott, Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Natural History (page 599)",
          "text": "A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, any, chance."
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "sattumoisin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "sattumalta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "par hasard"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "vielleicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "esetleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slučajno",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "случайно"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "por algún casual"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "časom",
      "sense": "possibly; perhaps",
      "word": "часом"
    }
  ],
  "word": "by any chance"
}