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Recent Examples of fluky But a fluky political moment had created the chance for something radical in New York. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024 The fluky sequence occurred when a shot from Golden Knights winger Jonathan Marchessault glanced off Faber’s stick, fluttered into the air and landed behind Gustavsson to make it 1-0. Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024 The hockeies could be said to resemble fluky businesses. Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024 There the trillions begin to feel nature’s winnow: an ocean current is a fluky thing, and it cannot always be relied on to carry a cod egg where a young cod wants to be. Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 See all Example Sentences for fluky 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fluky
Adjective
  • Those of us lucky enough to have English as a native language are to some degree inoculated from this issue, given its status as the language of business, aviation and international education.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • For the lucky few end clients, visiting Greubel Forsey’s manufacture should be a requirement.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • DeGuerin showed Morales just how plausible an accidental shooting would be with this type of gun.
    Morgan Canty, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Rogers police officers testified at the trial that evidence showed the shooting was accidental, which is why a warrant for manslaughter was issued for the teen's arrest.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • A good deal is one in which everyone walks away happy or everyone walks away mad.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • For some, one’s innie is not just a second self but a second chance, an opportunity to create a spinoff who might be happier, better, kinder.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Oh, the third mode is a combination of both – sets of airbags inflate and deflate in seemingly random order – which has been perhaps my favorite setting.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Go and read random slave narratives and get their experience of the time.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Which was fortunate, as the film itself was an amateurish slog.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The show is fortunate in that, unlike The Acolyte, it was designed to theoretically have what feels like a concrete ending.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Fluky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fluky. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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