by a fluke

As for the World Trade Center site, it was by a fluke of history, six weeks before Sept. 11, that the developer Larry A. Silverstein took the title to a 99-year lease on the property, putting up just $14 million of his own money.

He didn’t want another season sidetracked by a fluke incident.

The documentary unveils a man who became famous almost by a fluke, and then nursed a fraught, off-and-on love affair with the spotlight for the rest of his life.

Fried is off to a rocky start coming off a stellar 2020 season, and now he’s sidelined by a fluke injury in Tuesday night’s loss to the Miami Marlins.

By a fluke of physiology, three men survived long enough to be brought out by rescuers, just a day before the crest was abandoned to the French.