Chance
Chance verb - To take a chance on.
Put
Put verb - To risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event.
Usage example: deciding to go for broke, he put $1000 on a horse that had 20 to 1 odds
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He's such a believer that Rousseau Was Right that when given the chance to kill the fanatical followers of the person who put him and his friends through hell, he instead decides to give them all a second chance through rehabilitation in the Neo World Program.
Source: Iron Woobie - They learn of an incoming storm, and the Professor gets the idea of trying to put a lightning rod on it and hope lightning strikes it, but admits the chance is a million to one.
Source: Million-to-One Chance -
Alex is offered a chance to get back at the agent who put him in prison wrongly and the guy who should have been there instead of him, and accepts without hesitation.
Source: Video Game / The Crew
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