Thesaurus results for FLUKES

flukes

noun

plural of fluke

as in accidents

an unexpected benefit or advantage resulting from the uncertain course of events the discovery of oil on their property was just an amazing fluke

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Recent Examples of flukes Their odds of winning the World Series – a famously finicky task prone to small sample size flukes – were over 25%, one-in-four for one of baseball’s 30 teams. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 Guests at Brookfield Zoo can identify her in Dolphin Bay by her distinctive features, including a freckle on her tongue, pink coloration on her ventral side, and smaller flukes and dorsal fins in relation to her body size. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 These moments are not flukes either. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 26 June 2026 Whale song, the splashing of flippers, the flashing of flukes. — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026 That kind of overlap across two major rankings signals these aren’t flukes. — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2026 From a human perspective, whales are born backwards, emerging flukes first. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026 Who knew if these roles were flukes — one-offs, novelties — or if Jerry Adler would defy the odds stacked up against any actor, much less a sexagenarian new to the game, and continue to find work in his newfound profession. — Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 But by a series of flukes, Friedman never once auditioned for the CSO. — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025

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With rising numbers of accidents and injuries, school board members say student safety is their top concern.

— Michele Gile, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
The work is risky because miners typically do not have enough protection and the accidents are often deadly.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

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Certainly offensive puck luck was part of the story for the power play down the stretch; the club converted nearly 24 percent of its power-play shots over the final 25 games.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Europe's weather luck may have run out this year, and the war in Iran is going to make things worse.

— Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026

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