Sentence examples for entirely luck from inspiring English sources

JAMES SUROWIECKI: Not entirely luck — I assume there was some level of smart risk management, and the like.

JAMES SUROWIECKI: Not entirely luck—I assume there was some level of smart risk management, and the like.

It wasn't entirely luck.

But right now, a child's chance of survival is determined almost entirely by luck: where he or she is born, the income and education level of the parents, and other social and environmental factors that have a direct impact on health.

Platforms that have captured and continue to capture so much of our data — even, in the case of Facebook, harvesting data on people who have never even signed up to use its services — meaning there's no opt out of your personal data being stored on their servers, unless you live off the digital grid entirely (good luck!).

This is based entirely on luck and hope.

That number can fluctuate wildly from year to year, almost entirely because of luck.

But those stuck at home with gout or other quasi-Victorian ailments are not entirely out of luck.

Assume for a moment that outperformance is entirely due to luck but that retail investors do not realise this.

But anyone who cannot afford the $50,000 required to brush shoulders with Mr. Cuomo is not entirely out of luck.

She is absolutely right to remind Armstrong that life itself is riskily uncertain, and of the shallowness of acting as if we make our own luck entirely, picking our circumstances from a store shelf.