fluke
Example Sentences
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"It was attracted to the outside of the carcass in a fluke event of preservation."
From Science Daily
One can argue that Mamdani’s dramatic win was a kind of fluke, a black-swan event that reveals more about the Democratic Party’s institutional weakness than about a major generational or ideological shift.
From Salon
And almost halfway through the season, it’s looking less and less like a fluke.
The complications we’d encountered had been flukes; a healthy birth was possible, and pregnancy was safe for me.
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.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
