stroke of luck

"It was a stroke of luck for us to become aware of the creative potential of our partners in the Botanical Garden and Cluster of Excellence and to be able to develop this elegant bionic solution for a tangible clinical problem with them," says Dr. Claudius Stahl, co-author and specialist in anaesthesiology at the Medical Center -- University of Freiburg.

In a bizarre stroke of luck, firefighters could access the well on his property only because the new concrete driveway had just been finished.

"Covid restrictions were a stroke of luck for this defendant in pursuing the deception that her parents were still alive," the prosecutor added.

In a stroke of luck, by the time Biden dropped out, they had already started work on a documentary about the vice presidential contenders — an idea “Frontline” executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath proposed because of the advanced age of the likely presidential nominees.

Unless Tester pulls a Susan Collins and wildly overperforms his polling, Democrats would need a stroke of luck in “reach” Senate battlegrounds like Florida or Texas to make up for the loss.