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The difference is within the realm of chance?

What does realm mean here?

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The difference is within the realm of chance?

What does realm mean here?

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What do you think it might mean, have you looked up "realm" in a dictionary?
 

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While the dictionary's open, note the pronunciation. The word shares its derivation, but not its vowel sound, with 'real'.

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While the dictionary's open, note the pronunciation. The word shares its derivation, but not its vowel sound, with 'real'.

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The difference is within the realm of chance?

I opend another dictionary. Pronounciation does not sound like real. Even though at first I tried to pronounce it like "Realm".

Meaning is - Domain, region, Kingdom. Do they have any mening to the above sentence?
 

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Try this definition:

"the region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates:"

Do you think "chance" might have this type of "realm"?
 

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Try this definition:

"the region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates:"

Do you think "chance" might have this type of "realm"?


So, if anything occurs = business

difference is = Business sucess.

Can we rewrite the sentence "The difference is within the realm of chance"
 

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I don't understand what you are trying to rewrite, or why "business success" is supposed to equal "difference is."
 

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This is the first time you have mentioned business in this thread. It doesn't appear to have any relevance at all to your original question.
 

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This is the first time you have mentioned business in this thread. It doesn't appear to have any relevance at all to your original question.


Sorry, I made it worse. I just tried to make a different example to make it easier to understand.
 
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