"chances are" meaning in English

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          "text": "If you leave before 7, chances are you'll miss the traffic."
        },
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          "text": "2 August 2018', Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Disney goes back to the Hundred Acre Wood in the wistful Christopher Robin\nThere are the inevitable life lessons about family and making time, plus a big speech in which Pooh serves as an unlikely guru of the importance of paid vacation days. Chances are you’ve seen seen this all before. But at least this time, you’re seeing it with Pooh."
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        "It is likely that, it is probable that"
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        "(idiomatic) It is likely that, it is probable that"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "it is probable that",
          "word": "il est probable que"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "it is probable that",
          "word": "es ist wahrscheinlich"
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  "word": "chances are"
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          "text": "If you leave before 7, chances are you'll miss the traffic."
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        "It is likely that, it is probable that"
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        "(idiomatic) It is likely that, it is probable that"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "it is probable that",
      "word": "il est probable que"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "it is probable that",
      "word": "es ist wahrscheinlich"
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  "word": "chances are"
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