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What does chancy mean?

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They emerge from a chancy process of socio-cultural evolution, and it's by no means bound to happen.
Economists recognize that estimating multiplier effects is a chancy business under the best of circumstances.
Besides, transporting animals on ocean voyages is a chancy proposition full of danger for the animals and those assigned to care for them.
That has proved as chancy as standing below a seagull and scarcely more rewarding.
The natural souring of unpasteurized milk is a chancy business.
The fungus doesn't kill the tree, it just reddens the wood, and what this means is that finding a good red myrtle is a very chancy business.

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