fluke

You can read that as a fluke, a demonstration of climate change or a metaphor: What had unfolded over the previous night and into early Wednesday morning was certainly a form of explosive combustion.

This effect was sparked by a historical fluke: a cluster of deaths of 27-year-old musicians within a two-year period.

Nicks’ was a fluke pregnancy, she said, and carrying to term would have ended her career as she knew it.

It was just a fluke that I got that book deal at all.

“I think most people thought it was a fluke,” Arizona president Derrick Hall said.