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- adjective informal Like a
fluke ; remarkablyfortunate orimprobable .
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Examples
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Pure, unadulterated authentic funk and R&B is hard to come by in this day and age, but here it was -- a flukish find in the search for shade.
Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones Marc Ruxin 2011
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Pure, unadulterated authentic funk and R&B is hard to come by in this day and age, but here it was -- a flukish find in the search for shade.
Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones Marc Ruxin 2011
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What was happening in Denver didn't feel lucky or flukish anymore.
Tebow-Mania Ends...For Now Jason Gay 2011
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There is the “Just Make the Playoffs” contingent that believes that regular season performance isn’t all that important based on last year’s flukish Flyers-Canadiens semifinal matchup, where both the seventh- and eighth-seeded team made it to the conference finals.
Why the Caps need to win the division Kareem El-Alaily 2011
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Pure, unadulterated authentic funk and R&B is hard to come by in this day and age, but here it was -- a flukish find in the search for shade.
Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones Marc Ruxin 2011
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These Jets were in the AFC championship last year, but that felt flukish — those playoff wins were a brilliant gift, and that AFC Championship loss to Indianapolis wasn't a soul crusher.
Now Boarding All Passengers Jason Gay 2011
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Pure, unadulterated authentic funk and R&B is hard to come by in this day and age, but here it was -- a flukish find in the search for shade.
Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones Marc Ruxin 2011
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This franchise has seen its fair share of the flukish and the freakish, and with the exception of 1998, those events tend to go overwhelmingly against the team.
Why the Caps need to win the division Kareem El-Alaily 2011
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Among those who broke out are legends like Babe Ruth and Ralph Kiner as well as one-year wonders like Brady Anderson's flukish 50 HRs in 1996.
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While the improbable "pick-six" by the Defensive Player of the Year was heroic, it was flukish, and therefore not something that should determine the season's champion.
Greg Hanlon: What Boring Super Bowl? The NFL at Its Best 2009
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