Sentence examples for freak events from inspiring English sources
That said, the freak events tend to happen much more than one would predict in the stock market.
The limit, now £1m, exists "to protect us against freak events, acts of God," said a spokesman for the firm.
But if records go back less than 100 years, can we really set much store by so-called freak events such as the floods this summer?
Olive trees across the Mediterranean have been hit by freak events that mirror climate change predictions – erratic rainfalls, early spring frosts, strong winds and summer droughts.
The two world wars were essentially freak events, driven by contingency and in some cases lunacy: a bit like the killings on Utøya magnified a millionfold.
"Terrorist attacks on airlines are basically freak events — fortunately, they're exceedingly rare — so any attempt to predict who is likely to engage in that type of thing is inevitably going to sweep up a vast number of innocent people".
That was not a freak event.
But it was a freak event that truly jolted him.
Q: Could it be a one-off freak event?
He called the Northwest Airlines episode a "freak event".
