fluke
Example Sentences
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Despite my cat trepidation, I saw him again, just to make sure my first-date magic wasn’t a fluke.
From Los Angeles Times
For those who grew up with Ms. Blume’s star fixed immutably in their literary firmament, it’s hard to think of her success as a fluke of time and place.
But here they proved victory over Hull KR was no fluke and it could prove a season of surprises for the Knights, while the Airlie Birds contemplated a second successive defeat.
From BBC
It was a fluke that she was born in Ukraine.
From Los Angeles Times
This isn’t a fluke—the problem Congress had in mind when it crafted Section 122 in the early 1970s vanished shortly thereafter.
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