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• But Allen’s first big break had as much to do with luck as all of his homework.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 23 June 2022
• The third plant, with any luck, will produce for the dinner table.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2021
• But whether that company's worth $1B or $10B, that's got a lot more to do with luck.
  — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• But with luck and patience, Minnesotans might see it right here this month.
  — Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Then, with luck, an Elite Eight, a Final Four, or even, ahem, a championship.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• The new tags are solar-powered, are less obtrusive and, with luck, should last a year or more.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• So that everyone can talk about them more clearly, then plan, and with luck, avoid.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• There was some up front and, with luck, more on the back end: a share of the box office; a cut of the DVD or broadcast rights; a higher budget next time around.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• The tricky thing, though, was that the wife’s youth is by its nature fleeting, while the husband’s wealth would with any luck only increase with time.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 May 2024
• Once-rigid standards of the sizes and shapes, the colors and contours of what make a person beautiful have crumbled — for good, with any luck.
  — Jenny Bailly, Allure, 15 Sep. 2021
• But with any luck, and a little due diligence, your trips will be free of hitches and full of Insta-worthy good times.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 25 May 2023
• Which, for me, has been, and with any luck will continue to be, the golden oxymoron of the American experiment.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
• What could box office success for either Barbie or Oppenheimer—or, with luck, both—mean for the future of movies?
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2023
• An optimistic reading of the king’s famous motto — après moi le déluge — refers to what will be, with any luck, a deluge of terrific films.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• In fact, while some of the city’s current surplus can be credited to careful planning and preparation, a lot of it also had to do with luck, Gold said.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
• Even with luck on his side, Purdy still tossed an interception against Detroit.
  — Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• One non-negotiable, whichever white button-down shirt gets pulled from the mix: a good stain remover, and, with any luck, a suitcase with just enough room to bring another home with me.
  — Rebekah Peppler, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2023
• Perhaps our duty as parents is, as much to care for our own children’s well being, to teach them to care for and about the other species who will—with any luck—serve as their companions.
  — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 24 July 2024
• Trees can’t heal quite the way animals do, but with luck, this damage will remain minor and not cause significant dieback.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Eventually, children do leave and move on to experience a life of freedom—and, with luck, so do their parents.
  — The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• Future observations also aim to show exactly how the black hole eats infalling matter and, with luck, make movies of the black hole evolving over time.
  — Seth Fletcher, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• Future observations also aim to show exactly how the black hole eats infalling matter, and, with luck, make movies of the black hole evolving over time.
  — Seth Fletcher, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2022
• But with any luck, the reputational damage will be severe.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• You're emotionally uplifted by a sense of soul satisfaction as the moon aligns with luck planet Jupiter.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
• Many of these embryos will die; those that survive live in her uterus for the usual canine gestation period, around sixty days, after which, with any luck, a pup is born.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• But authors have to pay a fee, often hundreds of dollars for a single image, to reproduce them in a work that will be read by, with luck, ten or twenty thousand people.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• These faces in the crowd gave noteworthy performances that brought them a little closer to broader familiarity and, with luck, more good roles.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• As the moon aligns with luck planet Jupiter, fortunate connections and conversations open doors.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• And with luck, fourth-generation Kevin Brutocao, who was in the vineyard with his father from early days, will be pouring and willing to spill family tales.
  — Sara Schneider, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• He’s been a serviceable double-digit scoring guy during his seven years in the league and, with any luck, can become next season’s version of Lonnie Walker IV.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024