Sentence examples for fluke not from inspiring English sources

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"It was a one-hit wonder, a fluke not likely to be repeated".

But there were those who doubted this country's desire for something new, who said Iowa was a fluke, not to be repeated again.

But what Shiffrin needed to show Thursday — in an event that had been pushed back from Monday, one of several delays and disruptions in the Alpine skiing schedule — was that her most recent World Cup results were a fluke, not a trend.

Mr. Bush said that the word, which is on screen for one-thirtieth of a second and can be seen with clarity only by freezing a videotape of the advertisement, was a fluke, not a deliberate subliminal message to voters about his opponent.

Look, nobody likes to see their No1 defenceman go down to a season-ending injury – especially not a guy like Erik Karlsson – but most people would probably look at the way Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke haphazardly raised his skate and sliced Karlsson's achilles as a total fluke, not something that was premeditated.

Could 6,000 people taking courses in 60 days be a fluke, not an early sign of success?

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It doesn't matter if it was a statistical fluke or not".

Is this a fluke, or not?

Because: fluke is not a freshwater fish, people!

But tonight's goal, fluke or not, turned out to be the game-winner.

"You can catch 100 fluke and not get one that big," he said, and put away the feather duster.

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