fluke

Example Sentences

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Call it what you will: chances, providence, fluke, good fortune.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

A sports team that consistently ranks in the top tier of its division is unlikely to be a fluke.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

But here they proved victory over Hull KR was no fluke and it could prove a season of surprises for the Knights, while the Airlie Birds contemplated a second successive defeat.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Proving it was no fluke, it was the second time in three months that big-serving Rybakina has beaten the world number one.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

Riddle had no reason to disrupt his colt’s schedule to take on Seabiscuit and accept a risk, however small, that a fluke would cost his horse the championship.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand