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flukey

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The genome has so many genes in it that flukey correlations between one of them and some human trait are common.

But after the fifth race, Oracle had only managed one slightly flukey win and had no points on the board.

Though she was not initially trained as a dancer her first love was gymnastics—she had a head start with, in the words of one London critic, "the flukey perfection of her body".

Williams went down 0-3 in such light and flukey conditions that the competition had to be called off overnight when he was 0-2 down but he was able go on to beat France's Eric Monnin 2-1 in the third-place playoff as Berntsson took his own dose of defeat in the final against the St. Thomas, West Indies-based Taylor Canfield.

No glitch, though, on the last of the eight days as he played the flukey winds close to the shore.

"But at the same time, it was a little disappointing, because on that breakpoint at four-all, it was kind of a flukey point.

Ryan Johnson scored a flukey first-half goal that bounced off the back of the head of the goalkeeper as Jamaica defeated Honduras, 1-0, at Red Bull Arena to advance to the Gold Cup quarterfinals.

The fluke no longer looks so flukey.

"We'd write one every day if we knew that!" laughs Katie at the flukey nature of writing a genre-skipping slice of alt pop genius.

But the flukey, forgettable winner for his team made Houchen's goal the game's decisive moment as a matter of truth, one that defined and subsumed the afternoon; our collective soul was the winner.

Do say: "Diagnosis: flukey".

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