dumb luck

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Then, there’s a “Jeopardy!”-like general-knowledge quiz, although it seems to be based on dumb luck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Because it’s clear that what happened was not a situation where the president was saved because of the scale of the Secret Service but by sheer dumb luck that he is still alive.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2024

Napoleon ascends through shrewdness and dumb luck, taking advantage of anti-royalist sentiment one minute and crowning himself emperor the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Mr Hart says it was "dumb luck" that led to his team, which was studying life in Australia's Triassic era some 250 million years ago, being given the fossil to identify.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

It’s not like we used anything except our hands, feet, and dumb luck.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie