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lucky break
noun as in stroke of good fortune
Example Sentences
A onetime world champion but now a disgraced ex-con after a drunk-driving incident that killed a boy, Mike does have a lucky break ahead: an undercard match that night at Madison Square Garden that could revive his fortunes.
While a fleet of dedicated gamma-ray telescopes is the best option for detecting gamma rays from a nearby supernova, a lucky break with Fermi would be even better.
But Trump got another big lucky break here, not from the district court — Tanya Chutkan is a no-nonsense federal judge who has moved the case briskly — but from the U.S.
That was a lucky break for Walz, who bumbled his way through an explanation of the China discrepancy, pleading that he is a “knucklehead” who gets “caught up in the rhetoric.”
A young musician whose lucky break came when talent show producers found an online video of him playing the piano at a shopping centre is dreaming of a big future.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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