She was lucky enough to get the job by a fluke.
She had only spent 20 minutes writing her essay. She won the writing contest by a fluke.
"Dark flow" is no fluke, suggests a new study that strengthens the case for unknown, unseen "structures" lurking on the outskirts of creation.
Translucent bands of fluke were darkened by black rice vinegar, China's answer to balsamic, then touched with hot peony oil, which sizzled and whitened the lean fish as it landed.
All those astrology columns you've read that seemed spot-on were a fluke.
There are two major forms of schistosomiasis – intestinal and urogenital – caused by five main species of blood fluke (see table).
It's a lancet fluke: it's a little brain worm — a parasitic brain worm — that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle.
They are not yet quite sure. Their result has a 0.7% chance of being a fluke.
The one time an earthquake prediction came true (though it could just as easily have been a fluke) was in the Chinese city of Haicheng in 1975.
His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
When those 12 days are up, Shenzhou 8 will detach, retreat to about 460 feet (140 meters) away, then dock again, to prove the first time wasn't a fluke.
The first time this happened a few days ago, I thought it was interesting but dismissed it as a fluke.
It was only by a fluke that these artifacts were unearthed.
Like I said in my post after the Indian Wells final, I saw the event as a fluke rather than a harbinger.
Domalewski's first doctor called the recovery a fluke.
But it was no fluke.
