fluke
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The gap between these values is small in absolute terms, but far too large to dismiss as a statistical fluke.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
Call it what you will: chances, providence, fluke, good fortune.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Despite my cat trepidation, I saw him again, just to make sure my first-date magic wasn’t a fluke.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
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 • Feb. 27, 2026
And to answer the question of whether his results were simply a fluke, four years later, in the Michael Dukakis-George Bush campaign, Mullen repeated his experiment, with the exact same results.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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