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fluke
noun as in chance occurrence
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And almost halfway through the season, it’s looking less and less like a fluke.
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The complications we’d encountered had been flukes; a healthy birth was possible, and pregnancy was safe for me.
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A seven-year-old boy is in danger of losing sight in one eye because of an undiagnosed condition that was only picked up by a "fluke appointment" at the optician's.
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It was no fluke, with Littler - who averaged 107.4 to Greaves' 105 – calling her "some talent".
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Milwaukee is not a fluke like, say, the 2021 San Francisco Giants.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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