lucky
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I was lucky enough to avoid that side of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Sometimes when we are lucky, one of these collisions creates a Z boson and a quark, with high momentum."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Three years later, the entire Russell 2000 index got a lucky break.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Dan Gillespie Sells of The Feeling said the album's success was "very unusual and very lucky"
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“We’re so lucky to have met you, Mari Luz,” my mom says.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Even the beloveds, wonderfuls, luckies and so on were all Dones, and the awfuls were Not-Dooes.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Electrical engineer Luca Linhsen is one of the luckier ones -- she took up a job as a software consultant in Hamburg this month.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Kang survived, which made him luckier than others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As McDermott said, “You control how hard you work, and the harder you work, the luckier you’re going to get.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
They had lost the equivalent of billions, but they were among the luckier members of the Eisner family.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
We were lucky to get our uncle back from there and luckier to have him almost back to his old self, although Uncle D had long ago stopped telling us make-believe stories.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
To follow Alexander was, Mr. Richardson relates, for all but his luckiest generals, ultimately to sacrifice oneself “for another man’s dreams,” namely and tragically, to “break the limits of his humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"I am without a doubt, officially, the world's luckiest man," he told the paper.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
It felt like the luckiest thing; I’ll never forget when Bill called me and said that I got it and I truly couldn’t believe it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
There is a small chance that whoever placed these bets was just the luckiest person in the world.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2026
He did not have to creep along, for he met nobody on his way, but this did not surprise him in the slightest: This evening, he was the luckiest person at Hogwarts.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
