random chance

Unpredictable outcome possibility

Random chance is events occurring without pattern, cause, or predictability—pure luck with no determining factors.

The phrase is technically redundant, since chance already implies randomness, but the doubling serves as emphasis: It was random chance that we ended up on the same flight.

Often used to stress that no skill, planning, or intention was involved.

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luck of the draw · dice · roll of the dice · coin · coin toss · flip · probability · unpredictable · arbitrary · haphazard · fluke · coincidence · fortune · gamble · shot in the dark · odds · chaos · spin

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causation

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Purposeful cause over randomness

conscious decision · premeditation · agency · volition · free will

predictability

random chancedeterminism

Doctrine of causal necessity

inevitability · certainty · necessity · causality · predetermination

order

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Methodical arrangement or request

pattern · design · structure · system · regularity

Family

random, randomly, randomness, randomize, randomized, randomization, chance, chances, chanced

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G