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I don't want to insult him by calling him a fluke, but he's a fluke.
The faith the team showed in giving Luck a gigantic new contract while declaring last season to be a fluke was commendable, as long as it actually was a fluke.
Admittedly, it's a fluke – but it's a telling one.
It could be a fluke, but if the Red Sox's pilfering operation was already in place in July, August's exemplary offensive performance with men on second base looks like a fluke as well.
This might just be a fluke, he explains to Molina.
It shows that Mr Brown's case was not a fluke.
Many considered his election in 2202 to be a fluke.
Last year may have just been a fluke for Collins.
They want to win this congressional seat on a fluke.
It was, as jobber wins tended to be, a fluke.
Or just a fluke event we didn't need to cover?
It was not a fluke of the Electoral College system.
It was just a fluke that I got the audition.
This, of course, is not a fluke or an accident.
"It was important to show it wasn't a fluke," LaVine said.
The question is whether the Pennsylvania 12 result is a fluke.
"Strength in homebuilders probably isn't just a fluke," Jefferies' Thornton said.
"This wasn't a fluke," he said of Wood's eventual sixth place.
Edwards won office back in 22019 on somewhat of a fluke.
Edwards won office back in 2015 on somewhat of a fluke.
But achieving this uniform layer was a bit of a fluke.
Boeser opened the scoring at 2:31 on a fluke goal.
He's not a fluke TD guy like Marcedes Lewis circa 2010.
One study with a statistically significant conclusion could be a fluke.
"This wasn't a fluke," 2017 Open champion Jordan Spieth told reporters.
The right-wing government of Israel is also not a fluke.
It was a fluke to begin with, and it ain't stayin'.
The El Paso shooter is not a fluke or an anomaly.
But her breakthrough this season does not look like a fluke.
How do you prevent President Trump's election from being a fluke?
There's no clear research, and it may just be a fluke.
Will the success of "Hidden Figures" be treated as a fluke?
"But it's a fluke that caught the world's attention," he said.
"I thought his death was just a fluke," she told the paper.
"Certainly, what he did last year, that's not a fluke," Farrell said.
The performance on Saturday wasn't a fluke or a lucky happenstance, either.
He wrote, "And just in case y'all thought it was a fluke…"
Sun sneezing is a fluke of nature with no known selective advantage.
There was the cynical idea that Live Through This was a fluke.
It's also possible that this week's relative calm was just a fluke.
It might have been a fluke due to some un-upgraded software.
The scientific discovery turned out to be a fluke of their telescope.
It wasn't a fluke, I'm going to do it better and bigger.
And man, was that 2014-15 season a fluke for Tyler Johnson?
Called a fluke by critics, it also indicates incredibly efficient vote placement.
I had realized pretty quickly that my Gazelle sale was a fluke.
On Tuesday, Colon demonstrated that his homer had not been a fluke.
But the emergence of JD as an online brand was a fluke.
The protests were initially treated as a fluke by the mainstream media.
Some jobbers became legendary for their status, usually after a fluke win.
Though the song came out of nowhere, it wasn't quite a fluke.
They will be highly motivated to show the loss was a fluke.
For the first couple of days, I assumed this was a fluke.
But might the results of the study simply have been a fluke?
And it's not a fluke that comedies are the shows being greenlighted.
The game won't turn, as too many games do, on a fluke.
The extreme heat in Australia this week is not just a fluke.
Now I know my first puzzle was a fluke, total beginner's luck.
That the 2017 selection of "Moonlight" as best picture wasn't a fluke.
Do you think Eugene the egg was a fluke or something else?
Because of a fluke run to the conference finals two years ago?
One camp will argue that 2016 was a fluke, a black swan.
Yet a rematch with Rousey gives Holm the opportunity to prove that the outcome of their first fight was more than a fluke—and yes, there are plenty of fans out there who believe it was a fluke.
The 254 team, on the other hand, became the first and only Super Bowl champ to... Coughlin's second championship team certainly felt like less of a fluke; by the numbers, however, it was way more of a fluke.
It's also proof that AMD's first generation of Ryzen processors wasn't a fluke.
It's a fluke, the dog just happened to jump up on the cart.
It was not a fluke that the campaign message was 'take back control.
While last year was the game's best prediction, it was hardly a fluke.
The idea that your team will not get bopped by a fluke call.
I thought it must be a fluke, but the next day, still nothing.
Are these storms just a fluke, or a sign of things to come?
Hoctor has a history of disrupting TVData Plus Math's acquisition isn't a fluke.
This isn't a fluke or an accident, but a desired effect of design.
We're told the accident was "a fluke" and the rope was simply defective.
Her turn Thursday night suggests those standout performances were far from a fluke.
Some saw the jobs news as a fluke, and others a troubling omen.
The failures left scientists wondering whether Mr. Brown's cure would remain a fluke.
Through a fluke of nature, my beautiful baby was given a broken brain.
Thankfully, that felt like a fluke as otherwise, the service was incredibly attentive.
That its owner, Ben Tillett, 85, had them at all was a fluke.
Morgan, 52, claims it was "kind of a fluke" that they had similar names.
This string of mishaps on United flights doesn't appear to be a fluke, either.
They were a fluke quartet—but they were beginning with an awareness of presentation.
"My best guess as to the explanation is that it's a fluke," Severino said.
It fills me with joy that it wasn't just a one-off, a fluke.
Can employees really have a strong impact on employers or was this a fluke?
It no longer seems like a fluke ... Iggy Azalea has shelved her engagement ring.
Coral Castles's revival might be an isolated situation, a fluke in a faraway place.
But the biggest long-term mistake would be to consider this year a fluke.
It was dead in the water until I got a grant on a fluke.
Her fastidious dedication to creating banger pop songs isn't a fluke; it's a gift.
Dr. Low's role in identifying the structure of penicillin was something of a fluke.
Was the stuff before a fluke or is their scene getting better and better?
Even the Irish were quick to concede that the result was not a fluke.
REIGN One time you could call a fluke, two times feels like a pattern.
I thought this burst of attention was more or less a fluke of timing.
Any one special election result can be a fluke because of district specific factors.
For a little-known band, one Grammy nomination might be explained away as a fluke.
A caliphate is not a fluke of Islamic history, it is a reality of it.
You know the fashion rule: One is a fluke, two a coincidence, three a trend.
I somehow caught up with the group and brushed off the episode as a fluke.
From the beginning, G-Wagen's ascent to a showy American status symbol was a fluke.
"I don't think LSU getting beat by them was a fluke last week," Bowden said.
He's in his first NBA game and he breaks his leg in a fluke accident.
A fluke goal put the Canadiens in front at 10:06 of the opening period.
The struggle we presently find ourselves in is not a mistake and not a fluke.
Researchers keep running statistical tests, one after the next, until they hit a fluke correlation.
Like I said, it was a fluke to go back there and record that record.
She says that had never happened to her before, so it must've been a fluke.
This was not a fluke, but, it turned out, standard practice when blacks were stopped.
Mr. Abili's presence in the Irish Rep production comes courtesy of a fluke of timing.
I wanted to go again so that I could prove that it was a fluke.
At just 25, Paige is cruelly sidelined, victim of a fluke bump and a bum neck.
Now Marvel is back with a sequel that's ready to prove the original wasn't a fluke.
Somalilanders say their link to Somalia is tenuous, a fluke of a border drawn decades ago.
The presence of a metaphorical whale is, if you'll forgive the pun, often just a fluke.
"These results aren't a fluke," said Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Is it a fluke that the shows this year seemed in dialogue with the presidential campaign?
We're not planning to have another baby, thinking that our first must have been a fluke.
The president brushed off the concerns, calling the incident a "fluke" and praising the Secret Service.
But it's hard to say anything from one year, because it could just be a fluke.
It's unclear what makes Dallas unique or whether the past two years were simply a fluke.
Was one month just a fluke, or was it the first step toward a new routine?
The only solution I've found, DSTLD's $53 Women's Leather Leggings, is a fluke in the matrix.
But it's also very much possible, if not likely, that the original study was a fluke.
Kane put the Sharks up 2-0 on a fluke goal just over two minutes later.
And who knows, maybe this was all a fluke and the job would have been terrific.
All this suggests that the Notre Dame uproar may not be a fluke, but a harbinger.
They play it off as a fluke, which is easy to do since they themselves did nothing.
But the response suggests that the discovery of McKinnon and the other two subjects wasn't a fluke.
The hat itself may have been a fluke, but the slogan had a deeper history with Trump.
Even after that, I gave it another shot on the off-chance that it was a fluke.
That even though 9/11 is the most resonant moment in American history, it was a fluke?
The change in earnings in April suggested that the upward tick in wages was not a fluke.
If you think that's a fluke, the air temperature was -28 degrees Fahrenheit on January 30, 2019.
But for a fluke fourth-quarter foot injury to Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert, nobody was hurt.
As they outline in Physical Review Letters, the likelihood that the signal was a fluke is infinitesimal.
Jamie Benn, Stars—Admit it: Last year's Art Ross felt a tiny bit like a fluke, right?
Said differently, was Lamb's win a fluke, a harbinger of things to come or simply yesterday's news?
This isn't just a fluke for South Korea -- its demographic crisis has been building for a while.
On Sunday, Meeks's coach and fellow players said that his last-grasp heroics were hardly a fluke.
" Despite the debut album's popularity, they were thinking, Mr. Sanborn said, that "maybe it was a fluke.
Jordan Peele's "Us" is a trippy tale that proves "Get Out" was in no way a fluke.
Trump described it a "fluke situation," praising both the Secret Service and the receptionist who stopped Zhang.
It's become a fluke-inducing game changer—the sort of variable that makes inconceivable events feel possible.
A May payroll gain of 72,000 now seems like a fluke rather than a sign of deterioration.
That means there is only about a 1 in 6 million chance that this is just a fluke.
But as extraordinary as Trump is, it's just as important that reporters not treat him as a fluke.
If Donald Trump loses, then 2016 can be written off as a fluke (even if it shouldn't be).
One theorizer proposed that this unfinished robot isn't a fluke, but actually indication of a militarized Host army.
Nothing about their underlying numbers says this is a fluke, but so much of it depends on McDavid.
In the seventh inning, Gardner had driven in the tying run for the Yankees on a fluke single.
But it's also clear that Trump's presidency can no longer be seen as a fluke or a joke.
Enter Kirk Cousins, who has essentially been given a year to prove last season was not a fluke.
That message helped propel Mr. Brat to victory, though many Republican leaders dismissed his election as a fluke.
Through a fluke of weather, timing and internet trendsetting, Mr. Hurd sits at the intersection of it all.
Then, as if to prove it wasn't a fluke, it won the second half, 53-42, as well.
For one thing, the smaller the size of the groups considered, the greater the chance of a fluke.
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg's win in Iowa was not a fluke, and his support is broad and sustained.
The President described it a "fluke situation," praising both the Secret Service and the receptionist who stopped Zhang.
Mr. Schmidt's arrest in January, more than a year after the scandal erupted, was something of a fluke.
Mom and I would exchange "Oh, my God, she's right!" looks, then pretend it was all a fluke.
Still, whether he won on a fluke or not four years ago, Edwards' 2019 polling has been fairly good.
But even if it is just a fluke, it can't hurt to give season one, episode one a chance.
The app's success will likely be crucial to perceptions that Pokémon GO was more than a fluke breakout success.
Stearns wants to prove that the American Dream is possible and that his own financial success wasn't a fluke.
But the arrival of the band's new album, "Cleopatra" (Dualtone), shows that the song's success was not a fluke.
"Our offense is clicking, and I don't know that this is a fluke," Twins starting pitcher Kyle Gibson said.
It was a flash in the pan, or a fluke, and the order of things had been established again.
I wanted to know what the actual direction was going into the show; was diversity intentional or a fluke?
To run again would mean the neurological episodes had been a fluke, some kind of spell I could break.
The retail industry is doubling down on digital to keep its unexpectedly strong holiday performance from becoming a fluke.
As in winning two World Series in a row to demonstrate that the first one was not a fluke.
Still, the Warriors ran the Cavs off the floor on Thursday night, and it didn't feel like a fluke.
The Labor Department's closely watched employment report on Friday suggested May's sharp slowdown in hiring was probably a fluke.
Presumably the functionality could return if Giphy is able to show the incident was a fluke that won't be repeated.
Russia&aposs 5-0 win against Saudi Arabia in the World Cup opener last week might have been a fluke.
Today's relative calm isn't a fluke; it's a result of decades of hard and often contentious work toward European integration.
In the aggregate, we remain cautiously optimistic that 2015 wasn't a fluke, but rather a new baseline for Startup Nation.
The incident wasn't a fluke; platforms like Netflix have the power to drive traffic to Wikipedia in other circumstances, too.
In other words, p-value is supposed to help tell us whether or not a study's results are a fluke.
At first, Grace and I tried to laugh off our hookup as a fluke, afraid of disrupting the status quo.
The report shows "normal service resuming and shows last month was a fluke," said Eric Winograd, senior economist at AllianceBernstein.
Sincere talent, I think, is sometimes easy to mistake for something else: a fluke, a happy accident, an unformed idea.
DeRozan has a chance to prove his Game 5 effort, with 34 points on 22 shots, was not a fluke.
That has pollsters scratching their heads as to whether Michigan was a fluke or a cause to recalibrate their models.
Image: SpaceXElon Musk is ready to prove that landing the rocket on a barge in April wasn't just a fluke.
Virality in music is more often a fluke—a blip in the Zeitgeist—than an indicator of an artist's potential.
It was probably not a fluke, either: The Lions allowed the fourth-most fantasy points to the position in 2015.
And although Mr. Carter sees his victory as proof that Northern Virginia wants radical change, others consider it a fluke.
You know the fashion rule: One of anything is a fluke, two is a coincidence and three is a trend.
"It's not just a fluke," University of Colorado Boulder doctoral researcher Simon Pendleton, lead author of the study, told CNN.
Rousey will be hoping to quickly prove that the Holm fight was a fluke, not the beginning of the end.
When Scooter Gennett slammed four home runs for the Cincinnati Reds on June 2334, it was more than a fluke.
And all of the powers that be, whether Republican or Democrat decided in Sanders words that he was a fluke.
And on those rare occasions when it does happen, it's often dismissed as a fluke, or a stroke of good luck.
Doll, Nuveen Asset Management's chief equity strategist and senior portfolio manager, believes the Dow's 602 point Monday loss wasn't a fluke.
" She posted again later saying that "The establishment will spend a lot of time trying to spin @Ocasio2018 as a fluke.
For each of these 27 judges, the odds that such a pattern was a fluke were less than 1 in 22014,22016.
"I think this employment number was a fluke and an aberration," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial.
Snap will have to show that its recent growth metrics weren't a fluke when it releases quarterly results on July 23.
It's hard not to be skeptical: Maybe it's the placebo effect or a fluke, correlation doesn't imply causation, and so on.
Furthermore, while "Pull Up With Ah Stick" is awesome, it's not a fluke in the way viral hits so often are.
My healthy son had been a fluke; I was not actually capable of providing a safe habitat for a growing life.
In September, a flash flood from a fluke storm carried off two vehicles with three FLDS sisters and their children inside.
But allowing not [a] gun, but guns to come in, allowing people to die, that's not just a fluke of nature.
Tavares proved that wasn't a fluke when he led the 2017 acquisition of General Motors' long-troubled Opel and Vauxhall brands.
Editorial Solid job growth in June, reported on Friday, provided welcome proof that the alarming performance in May was a fluke.
Mr. Romney refused, arguing that a single year's return proved nothing; it could be a fluke, or could even be manipulated.
Someone might beat the Crimson Tide, and someone else might even win the national championship, but that would be a fluke.
Was "DAMN." a fluke, or will the prize — the 2019 winner will be announced on April 15 — genuinely embrace popular music?
But Mr. Trump would be wise to view that number as more of a fluke than a trend, for several reasons.
Every team that won last week is Super Bowl-bound, and every team that lost is convinced it was a fluke.
I was told that it was a fluke and wouldn't happen again since I had no family history or risk factors.
It was not a split decision; the Senate's momentary Republican majority is the result of a fluke in the electoral map.
Last year, Ole Miss was a fluke loss to Arkansas away from winning the SEC West, after beating Alabama earlier that year.
Anyone's first grand-slam title can be called a fluke, especially when the opponent is admittedly injured, as Nadal was in 2014.
These two performances were proof that her prior failed music career wasn't a fluke and that her true talent was all image.
In a fluke of history, a touch of fate or God, he met Charles Van Doren at a party in the Village.
Landing can no longer be looked at as a fluke, it can be looked at as a triumph of science and tinkering.
So, how can Allen keep the momentum going next week against Green Bay and prove the massive upset wasn't just a fluke?
Ms. DeFilippo, a pet groomer from Massachusetts, got into the industry as a "fluke" after a career as a surgical dental assistant.
The rep adds ... the fainting scare was just a fluke, and Tone only needed a minute to recoup backstage with some water.
At the time, there were rumors that the discovery was not a fluke and that other gravitational-wave cataclysms had been recorded.
Few expected Syracuse to advance as far as it has, but Lydon said the Orange's run should not be considered a fluke.
The historic deal made by Fox Searchlight is totally exciting, and slightly inspiring—every black film success is treated as a fluke.
His immortality is a not a fluke—it is the result of very specific actions Ross himself took while he was alive.
That first "John Wick" came along like a fluke — a shallow, sharp, shiny object with its own internal logic and idiosyncratic style.
Ms. DeFilippo, a pet groomer from Massachusetts, got into the industry as a "fluke" after a career as a surgical dental assistant.
Or, economists say, the figures could be a fluke, leaving Japan to keep looking for ways to escape its slow-growth rut.
It is equally shortsighted to think that only bad Republican candidates are driving Democratic success or that such success is a fluke.
That was the word they used, and they said — Your brand of politics, everything about you, they thought was just a fluke.
The preliminary data from Redbook might be an indication that August sales figures weren't a fluke, and that consumer spending is declining.
The President, whose family business owns the club, has called Zhang's entrance onto the property a fluke and said he wasn't concerned.
Whether that success turns out to have been a fluke or the start of a bona fide trend remains to be seen.
There's still a sense that Trump's success, while not quite a fluke, was somehow unique, a product of his bizarre cult of personality.
We don't know for sure if these patterns are genuine or a fluke of the data collection, or why they might be true.
In short, it's virtually impossible to tell whether abiogenesis was a fluke event, or a common occurrence—here, or elsewhere in the universe.
The yield curve's failure to foresee recessions outside the United States has led some scholars to dismiss its predictive power as a fluke.
And if it seemed like taking down that big, bad machine in the trailer took a lot of effort, that's not a fluke.
The rough live show was taken as proof that her supposed talent was all talk, no substance; Lana Del Rey was a fluke.
Her success is not a fluke; the seriousness of her work goes beyond the pastel colors that have now taken over social media.
But when the three investors tested it a second time to ensure the first test wasn't just a fluke, the sharks didn't leave.
But the nose cone of Karam's car came down out of the sky and struck Wilson in the helmet in a fluke accident.
And that's not necessarily a fluke: Researchers have found that bike-share riders tend to get into far fewer crashes than other cyclists.
It is, of course, too soon to guess whether it was a fluke or a portent of a sea change in American policy.
Leitch then went on his own to make "Atomic Blonde" last year (Stahelski made "John Wick 2") and proved it wasn't a fluke.
The improbable rise was almost over before liftoff, with Dempsey's youth career feeling more like a fluke than the start of something special.
But until now, infectious cancer was considered something of a fluke in the natural world, initially observed only in dogs and Tasmanian devils.
They feel the nation has tired of his divisive presidency, and some see his election in 2016 as a bit of a fluke.
Mr. Kiley was a former Central Intelligence Agency operative and public policy expert who became a transit professional in 1975 by a fluke.
It was Pink saying that the poor performance of Try This was a fluke, and that she still had hits up her sleeve.
Their goal: to endorse 20183,22018 candidates by next year, and have faith that the more than 21 percent success rate wasn't a fluke.
The Hawkeyes are not a fluke, and not inexplicable—their players are talented in the conventional sense, too, and have pedigrees to match.
"It's a very Democratic district, what happened in 2014 was a fluke," said Jon Ralston, a well-known Nevada political journalist and pundit.
Worse, subsequent research suggested that the Riverside program's success at promoting work was a fluke, the product of an already stronger local economy.
The Israeli Air Force lost an F-16 after coming under heavy Syrian antiaircraft fire, but that seems to have been a fluke.
Both parties are watching closely to see if Levin's victory was a fluke or a sign that the district is becoming Democratic territory.
She has another big effort from November (a 99 Brisnet speed figure in the Hut Hut Stakes) to show it wasn't a fluke.
We would see if our brief meeting four years before was a fluke or if our May-December friendship was built to last.
Road games in Denver can be tough, but the Bears have the added motivation of proving last year's success was not a fluke.
I must be half 'sleep, too, 'cause even when you was cutting me back in the day I thought it was a fluke.
If you win just one title, you're either a fluke or you're STILL a bunch of chokers for not winning more (Atlanta Braves).
It also relies on a number of assumptions, none more important than the belief that Twitter's Q4 profit was not just a fluke.
Ayers called the fatal accident a "fluke" and said she hopes it doesn&apost tarnish Branson because most of its income comes from tourists.
There are a lot of reasons to believe that the latter was something of a fluke rather than a sign of his imminent demise.
Tesla continues to demonstrate why its success among a crowded field of auto giants isn't a fluke, this time with a special holiday greeting.
If we, as Baker and others do, see Trump as something alien from "Republicanness," then it's easy to dismiss his politics as a fluke.
Resting on Queiroz's shoulders now is pressure to ship a product that competes with rivals and prove his success with Chromecast isn't a fluke.
For example, the University of Oregon's partnership was built on college football because they had a fluke trip to the Rose Bowl in 1995.
Also on the side of this being a fluke, perhaps Trump's success is just a product of both his celebrity and his unique personality.
He received credit for a fluke goal just 41 seconds after faceoff, when his shot ticked off the skate of Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech.
It could be happenstance, but you know what they say: Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence and three times is a trend.
The first launch's results might have been a fluke, but the second launch confirmed that I had nailed my advertising, marketing, and sales strategies.
Writing this performance off as a fluke would be daft, but a rematch would certainly be intriguing if the UFC felt like granting one.
Shelby was a surprisingly good pass rusher for the Dolphins in 2015, even if his overall career says that's a bit of a fluke.
Though the song came out of nowhere, it wasn't quite a fluke: Lil Nas X, now 20, had been a student of online virality.
Some Americans see Trump's nomination as a fluke made possible by a divided presidential field and his unique skills as a reality TV star.
Writing it off as a fluke, the same political class predicted that Latino support for President Trump would wane once he was in office.
"Even after AOC won, people were like, this is a fluke and it can't happen again," said Waleed Shahid, the spokesman for Justice Democrats.
Trump had dismissed the breach of his Mar-a-Lago property as a "fluke situation" and said he was "not concerned" about the incident.
Several New Hampshire politicos I talked to characterized 2016 as a fluke year, and said 2020 is showing a realignment back to retail politics.
I headed back to the airport at 6:30, convinced that my first two flights were a fluke and my luck had run out.
Whenever two events are correlated and it's not a fluke, there are two explanations: One event causes the other, or some third factor causes both.
If more killer whales can be observed mimicking sounds, we'll know that this isn't simply a fluke — meaning just Wikie's unique ability to mimic sound.
Malcolm Smith's amazing Super Bowl performance with the Seahawks in 2014 increasingly looks more like a fluke than a sign of untapped potential at starter.
When a market that's spent more than a year in the red finally breaks to a fresh all-time high, it's not just a fluke.
Such testimonials may empower victims to report harassment and require bystanders to account for behavior they might have previously dismissed as a fluke or misunderstanding.
Duvall is showing last year's 33-homer campaign and NL All-Star selection wasn't a fluke, as he finished the first week of 2017 batting .
Blas Cabrera thought he spotted one in his detector, a superconducting ring, but didn't see any other events to confirm the first wasn't a fluke.
"Even when the doctors tell you that it's more common or it's kind of a fluke, you don't necessarily want to believe that," he said.
Now we have replay review, everyone hates it, and we're all wondering why we changed the rules because of a fluke play that rarely happens.
The concurrence of the coffeehouses was a fluke that occurred because Ms. McKeown had to reschedule, said Carter Smith, who founded Common Ground in 2001.
But Charles may be back soon, and Ware's big game, in the largest comeback in Chiefs history, looks more like a fluke than a harbinger.
It was stacked with bacon, and the bun was significantly fluffier than the one on the sausage croissant, though that may have been a fluke.
"It's really important that it wasn't a one-off, it wasn't a fluke," said Richard Jefferys, a director at Treatment Action Group, an advocacy organization.
Though many pundits were quick to claim this was somehow a victory for the Republican Party or a fluke, this election was far from that.
"It's such a fluke, so lucky and so amazing," he said motioning over the pool, which at that point he had yet to swim in.
When you're raised on movies that portray female queerness as a fluke, finding a film like Rough Night feels like a mirage in desert heat.
The magic punch against Bisping, like Werdum's loss to Miocic, is often treated as a fluke occurrence due to a momentary mistake on Rockhold's part.
This obviously raised a lot questions at the time, but the strange incident may have been dismissed as a fluke if it weren't for further discoveries.
But this year's ads also served as a not-so-subtle promise that the Galaxy Note 7's exploding battery last year was just a fluke.
Given that Fashion Week has a notoriously high barrier of entry, their success at effortlessly soaring across it seems more like a harbinger than a fluke.
"At first I was like, 'Okay, maybe it was a fluke, maybe Jesus came through one time,' but I entered another competition and won," she said.
To many Republicans, Trump's nomination was a fluke — one that could not be replicated by anyone else and would require few policy concessions to his voters.
But by that reasoning, losing wouldn't be just a fluke, just a failure of the body politic to recognize and reward majesty when they behold it.
The end of the tail is missing from the fossil, so he cannot say if it featured a fluke that would have helped propel it underwater.
This analysis suggests that Trump is the product not just of a fluke election or a racist and sexist backlash, but the culmination of late capitalism.
Electing a Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama — is this extraordinary upset a fluke or does it light the way to Democratic victories in 2018 and 2020?
It's a truism that the worlds of glamour, power, and success are populated with people who think they got in on a fluke and don't belong.
" But, he added, noting that the experimenters had always cautioned that the bump was most likely a fluke, "we have always been very cool about it.
Though the timetable appears to be set for a late-season return, Prescott will be given many games to prove his preseason performance isn't a fluke.
Tyler Pitlick scored the game's first goal for the Stars in the second period before Casey Cizikas tied it with a fluke goal at 14:10.
So the Mets staggered home with the same record as in 2017, the season they had hoped was a fluke, the season now stuck on repeat.
It was a fluke that he won the primary, there were just so many people in the race and then barely squeaked by in the general.
Travis Kelce, the tight end who caught two of Mahomes's touchdown passes this week, said he does not believe the young quarterback's success is a fluke.
So you're finding a way to essentially circumvent these aldermen who think you're a fluke, and think they can block you by literally tapping into — Right.
I'm certainly open to the idea that the cash had some effect, but maybe the big difference between the treatment and control villages was a fluke.
He and Ms. Blichfeld made the decision to end their six-year marriage on Election Day of 2016, a fluke of timing that had a benefit.
But though Barty, an Australian, was the 13th WTA champion in 14 events, her winning a title of this magnitude bore no resemblance to a fluke.
Worse, subsequent research suggested that the Riverside program's success at promoting work was a fluke, the product of an already stronger local economy rather than any reforms.
This could seem like a fluke, the photo is blurred and obscured by text so it's hard to tell whether it really is the photo of Ali.
While Sanders opponents have already begun spinning a possible win here as a fluke, likely far below his 2016 numbers, none are clearing out of the way.
It's tempting to dismiss Sanders's win tonight as a fluke win in a state that is next door to Vermont and shares many media markets with it.
Her experience wasn't a fluke: In 2016, Apple sued a company in New York for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its accessories on Amazon, like charging cables.
What if it was a fluke, or the patient woke up on their own, or something else the scientists did actually caused the patient's eyes to open?
Since she looks very similar to both Sophie Giroux and Alice (Abigail Hardingham), it's safe to assume this girl's appearance on the ride was not a fluke.
Werdum, meanwhile, will look to prove that his defeat of Velasquez was more than a fluke, and that he is indeed the better man of the two.
The flat carbon emissions trend the world saw in 13 was not a fluke, according to a new report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
OVERALL FLAVOR: 5 — I'm going to go ahead and assume that the slightly burnt McMuffin was a fluke, because everything else in this just worked so well.
To anyone who will listen, they will disclaim him as a fluke—a skilled entertainer who ran an infomercial-like campaign and swindled Republicans into supporting him.
When a new elevated bike path in Rio collapsed in April, hit by a fluke wave, the deaths of two people weren't just seen as a tragedy.
It seems that Snapchat's sudden growth spurt last quarter was a fluke, with Snap adding just 2120 million users in its core North American market this quarter.
His near victory proved that his Iowa win in the delegate count wasn't a fluke, and voters in the states to come will give him another look.
And T.I., of course, helped turn Atlanta into a hip-hop focal point, showing coastal cities that the pioneering ATL breakout group Outkast wasn't just a fluke.
He won a second presidential term by a fluke landslide: a first-round upset meant that his opponent was a far-right extremist, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
It would be tempting to write off 100 gecs as a prank or a fluke if the songs did not have such an eerily resonant emotional core.
But that survey data doesn't necessarily apply to this new all-wheel-drive versions so I still don't know if my experience was a fluke or not.
He won a second presidential term by a fluke landslide: a first-round upset meant that his opponent was a far-right leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Quite a few Democrats see Trump's victory in 2016 as a fluke, a historical accident, a twist of fate that can be explained only by Russian mischief.
Neither team's recent success is a fluke, and Boston, by acquiring Al Horford this summer, has gained the balance that the Raptors are hoping Ibaka will provide.
And while scientists are still uncertain whether they were a fluke or part of a trend, they are warning we should treat it as a baseline year.
If gentility is de rigeur and blatant patriotism frowned upon, Brexit might seem to be a fluke in British politics — but it is reality all the same.
On the eve of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, after three thorough thumpings and a fluke-y blowout win at home, that nonsensicality looked malignant, and terminal.
This was far more of a fluke than a sustainable attack from a team that struggled all year long to produce efficient offense without Thomas leading the way.
But excessive data massaging can wind up with a p-value lower than 0.05 just by random chance, making a hypothesis seem valid when it's actually a fluke.
Had a hypothetical extraterrestrial broadcast gone offline, or was the signal a fluke—some spike from inside the Russian observatory itself, or a satellite passing overhead (most likely)?
If Moon succeeds, he'll be seen as a screen phenomenon; if it fails, his first movie, the $453 million-grossing Purple Rain, may be seen as a fluke.
It may all be a fluke, but as uninspiring as Flores was last year, he is still only 24 and was a highly thought-of prospect for years.
The journey to founding Ice Music started with a fluke, when Linhart carved an upright bass out of ice and was surprised to find that it sounded good.
"Those three wins I've had since the Cup have meant more to me than the three I had before, because you're saying it wasn't a fluke," Haas said.
Having this information come out during the window between the primary and the general election was a fluke, and absent that fluke, it's hard to imagine Jones winning.
" And as Larkin said in a short documentary produced by NewsOK: "It's not just a fluke that we are all Native Americans and that we all became dancers.
This was, in essence, a fluke — much like the 2016 presidential race, when voters also defied pre-election polls to choose a maverick billionaire businessman without political experience.
To alleviate any concerns that the results were a fluke, the FDA could ask Biogen to do an additional trial before considering approval instead of postmarket, analysts say.
Sanders could no longer be written off as a fluke but rather a force in his own right with a base of power independent from any political party.
"No longer will they call my victory a fluke," Mr. Sanders, then 19893, wrote in a letter after the election, to a city-planning expert at Cornell University.
The day after the Warriors game, a fan tweeted to Lillard pointing out a quote in which Warriors guard Klay Thompson called the Blazers upset win a fluke.
Trump said he was "not concerned at all" and called the security breakdown a fluke while Pompeo said it was a sign of the threat that China poses.
Arizona took a 17-14 lead with 3:19 left in the third quarter on a fluke play after linebacker Colin Schooler intercepted a pass thrown by McIlwain.
It proved that Trump was a fringe candidate who tapped into an American ugliness and rode it to a fluke victory with the help of a foreign adversary.
Sports fans never have this sense of closure: Win the World Series or the Super Bowl and you're still open to the charge that the victory was a fluke.
His final run in the UFC was stacked high with defeat, but he remained on the UFC roster because of a fluke guillotine choke of Ryan Bader and nostalgia.
One successful phone might have been a fluke, two could be a great streak of luck, but the company now has four years of constantly improving and evolving devices.
GR: I don't think it's a fluke, but I do think, I've said this before, there are more stories about women in film than there are women in film.
And the triumph wasn't a fluke: The novel, which Jones describes as a "time-traveling western," has surpassed those of his idol a couple of times since then, too.
"We are sort of holding our breath to see if the first four months was a fluke," said Gladney Darroh, president of Houston-based energy recruiting firm Piper-Morgan.
Fitzpatrick's strong showing in 2015 has just as much a chance of being a fluke as it is the quarterback finally being in the situation that best suits him.
"So — it seems that what we saw in those December plots was a fluke," wrote Matt Strassler, a theoretical physicist and visiting professor at Harvard, in a blog post.
There hasn't been much written about the correlation between mill towns' French Canadian influx and their rich histories with hockey, but it seems improbable this would be a fluke.
The Ravens (1-1) showed last week that their blowout victory in Week 1 was a fluke, but they do enough on defense that this game should be close.
When Shuzo Matsuoka and Kimiko Date reached the men's and women's quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1995, it was a fluke — at least in the eyes of one of them.
Today he kicks off his re-election bid as the dominant force in politics, and voters will decide before long whether 2016 was a fluke or a transformative moment.
"When I got elected it was kind of a fluke," said Mr. Faught, who in 2006 won a seat in Muskogee that had never been held by a Republican.
VANESSA Wesley, I am not sure if you are familiar with the Fashion Law of Trend, but it essentially states that if something occurs once, it is a fluke.
For all his bluster, Trump probably knows on some level that he is deeply unpopular and that his victory in 2016 was largely a fluke of the Electoral College.
But the Wisconsin result could also just be a fluke of the calendar rather than having much of a larger meaning beyond depriving Trump of a few more delegates.
Last month's jump in hiring by services sector businesses suggested that a sharp slowdown in private payrolls growth in May shown in another report on Wednesday was probably a fluke.
The New Zealand Herald asked Nathan Guy about why Thiel has kept his New Zealand citizenship a secret until it was revealed after a fluke inquiry into a land purchase.
As he tells it, the 2808's signature sound of thwacking snares, staccato handclaps and that unmistakable whomping kick was sort of a fluke—the byproduct of a defective semiconductor.
When Berkeley passed its soda tax in 2014, industry groups dismissed the measure as a fluke given the city's largely white population and reputation as a hotbed for liberal measures.
However, a fluke in the system allows it to work in Sokcho, in the northeast corner of the country, just outside the DMZ (demilitarized zone) between North and South Korea.
The members of E.L.P. betrayed no particular interest in songwriting; the group's big hit, "Lucky Man," was a fluke, based on something that Greg Lake wrote when he was twelve.
Ariel and Sutherland also worried about anyone basing decisions on a single study, which, no matter how rigorous, could well be a fluke, "the statistical equivalent of 'luck,' " they wrote.
That'snot a fluke, either, and it means that pitchers are now throwing a higher share of breaking and off-speed pitches than ever before, potentially risking injury in the process.
About a week later, he told doctors that his suicide attempt had been a "fluke" and managed to convince them he wasn't depressed in order to secure a speedy release.
How many different ways can I describe a fluke ceviche to a guest without using the same adjectives in one night, and what's the exact pigment of that red wine?
The real test will come when Nordstrom reports its earnings and investors see whether Rack's slower first-quarter growth was a fluke, or if the business is really in trouble.
It is impossible to know if the two arrests so close together are a fluke or signal of a growing white supremacist movement in the county, law enforcement officials said.
Martin Prado, the Marlins infielder and a 14-year major league veteran, does not expect this season to be a fluke considering what he's seen of Alonso's consistency and maturity.
Mar-a-Lago security Trump has described the Zhang case as a "fluke situation," but the case so far has highlighted the possibility of security flaws at Trump's private club.
The handful of phishing messages that became public appear to have been sent to the State Department due to a fluke relating to the fake addresses used by the spammers.
According to WRAL, Bays, who was pregnant with her third child, thought she was going into labor a week before she actually did, but it turned out to be a fluke.
Any questions of whether the Atlanta Falcons' fast start was somewhat of a fluke were put to rest last week following a convincing road victory over the reigning Super Bowl champions.
If there was a chance she was going to think her act, which lands her in jail, was a fluke, club employee Susie (Alex Borstein) convinces her she has real talent.
Next, we have to wonder whether three years ago was a fluke; Gordon wasn't much of a route runner and mostly made a string of big plays by running go-routes.
In fact, Ruiz says he REALLY wants to see Joshua sign on for the rematch so Ruiz can prove to the world it wasn't a fluke, and he's the real deal.
None of this appears to be a fluke (though the numbers are a bit cloudy thanks to Hayward not playing in Utah's loss against the Golden State Warriors on December 8).
A third commenter clapped back against "keyboard warriors" who criticized the officials for getting too close, noting that "all tigers do not behave this way" and calling the encounter a fluke.
Although it was a fluke in my eyes, this Power-5 conference missed the playoffs last season and proceeded to go a collective 1-8 in Bowl Games (thanks, Kyle Whittingham).
VICE met up with Senfter to hear the story of how a fluke remix to his song wound up reaching the top of the charts—whether he liked it or not.
If you want credit for that, you need to provide some proof that it wasn't just a fluke, the product of favorable matchups, injury-riddled opponents, or a watered-down league.
But if anyone on the left still believed that Trump's 2016 victory was a fluke, or that he would be easily beaten in 2020, voters discharged a warning shot on Tuesday.
Partly a fluke of timing, this engagement with the United States has become central to Malpaso's mission, setting it apart from other Cuban troupes, of which there are a surprising number.
With interest rates positioned to rise further - which would prompt investors to shift positions again - Morgan Stanley's results "should not necessarily be seen as a fluke," Oppenheimer analyst Chris Kotowski said.
"I think we'll learn whether [Michigan] was a fluke or not," Richard Berg-Andersson of the Green Papers, which tracks delegate math, said in an interview before today's returns came in.
I think the issue we had was a fluke and I don't have any safety concerns about the device, but I was impressed with how quickly customer service handled the problem.
Still, the successful treatment is considered a milestone for researchers who worried that a case 12 years earlier involving the first-ever patient to be cured of HIV was a fluke.
"We want to keep the momentum of last year's awards moving forward, which we don't want people to think for any reason was some kind of a fluke," Ms. Quatrano said.
Haqq is a twin (her sister Khadijah Haqq McCray also occasionally appears on KUWTK), but she said she was "relieved" that the two heartbeats detected during an ultrasound were a fluke.
A Jefferies analyst said this bookings miss was a "fluke" and not a sign of fundamental problems, and that any pullback in the stock should be seen as a buying opportunity.
On Wildboy, the 20-year-old proves that the success of his piano-led breakout, "Envy Me," which peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, wasn't a fluke.
He could still use some refinement in terms of adjusting his attack when his first approach doesn't work, but his 17 sacks and five forced fumbles in 2018 weren't a fluke.
Some market experts have dismissed the inversion as a fluke phenomenon driven by the fact that investors are rushing to buy US bonds as a sign of confidence in America's resilient economy.
Democrats may have retaken control of the House, but Tuesday's midterms also showed that Donald Trump's 2016 election wasn't a fluke — and that his supporters will show up to vote for Republicans.
They said March's unexpectedly strong trade growth also was a fluke due to comparison with weak numbers last year and the resumption of business after the Lunar New Year holiday in February.
Indeed, that's what you'd expect based on Republican intimations that Trump is a fluke, or a force that emerged from the ether, rather than from the primordial soup of GOP grievance politics.
But they turned out for Obama in 210, and — confounding the expectations of some Republicans, who thought 2008 was a fluke — in 2012, when Obama was neither as new nor as popular.
Measurements from the LHC last year suggested the presence of a new particle that could have changed our understanding of physics, but more recent data suggests that it was just a fluke.
How I got the interview was partly a fluke: A longtime source whose opinion I value pointed me to the case of Harry Sarfo, and encouraged me to dig into his story.
Reds RH Sal Romano (NR) Peralta proved his dominant outing against Colorado in his season debut wasn't a fluke when he put together a quality start to win at Toronto on Tuesday.
That Jonathan was one of just a few African-American boys at BEAM (some of the other black students were the children of African or Caribbean immigrants) could have been a fluke.
The annual report released Monday by the Global Carbon Project provides fuel to environmentalists arguing that the slowdown in emissions growth was more of a fluke than the start of a pattern.
And then, in what Mr. McCraney considers a fluke, as a first-year graduate student he was tapped as an assistant to August Wilson, the acclaimed playwright, months before Mr. Wilson died.
The Office of the Surgeon General's campaign to curb tobacco use in the 1960s is widely cited as one of greatest modern public-health successes, but I wonder if that's a fluke?
Lest anyone think that last year's Oscars were a fluke or that the whiteness of the winners was just a coincidence, this year's nominees are … possibly even whiter than last year's bunch. Sigh.
Sharks 2, Wild 0 Dylan Gambrell scored a fluke goal early in the third period to break a scoreless tie as San Jose spoiled the NHL head-coaching debut of Minnesota's Dean Evason.
Williams-Sonoma — Shares rose 4.8% after an analyst at Gordon Haskett upgraded Williams-Sonoma to accumulate from hold, noting the company's strong same-store sales in the first quarter were not a "fluke."
Tyron told us he's looking forward to polishing Thompson off and proving their last fight (which ended in a draw) was a fluke ... but beyond that, he's got some bigger things to prove.
In the end, the top four finishers — Koepka, Tommy Fleetwood, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed — all started the week ranked in the top 13, so nobody could say it was a fluke leaderboard.
It's tempting to dismiss such a finding as a wild coincidence or a fluke, but as you can see in the chart, the relationship between the two has persisted for nearly 150 years.
Paquette scored his 10th goal, Point added his NHL-best 19th power-play tally and Trouba netted a fluke power-play goal off a quirky bounce off the stanchion in the third period.
Wondering whether their results were a fluke, the team then compared the cave bear genome to that of seven other brown bears — one ancient and six modern — and found the same genetic mixing.
In this way, a man whose candidacy was a joke, whose election was a fluke tainted by fraud, and whose presidency is a bane will get the chance to remake the American bench.
It is a coast-to-coast ribbon composed mostly of rural areas and small cities, many having struggled to attract people and money until a fluke of lunar orbit did it for them.
At the time, it seemed like a fluke — no LP from an animated film had gone to No. 21 in almost a decade — but "Frozen" wound up dominating the chart for 13 weeks.
"When it happens once, it could be a fluke, but when it happens twice, it's real," said Andrew Terner, a private dealer in New York who has been collecting Basquiat works for decades.
The annual report released Monday by the Global Carbon Project provides fuel to environmentalists to argue that the slowdown in emissions growth was more of a fluke than the start of a pattern.
Republican leaders told themselves that Mr. Trump's dominance in the polls over the summer of 2015 was a fluke and would end because of his statements about race, women, the military and trade.
It was a fluke of timing: The papal tickets had been arranged by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York months earlier, well ahead of Mr. O'Reilly's high-velocity skid out the door.
Saad got the winner on a fluke bounce at 13:43 of the third, and Kane capped the scoring, and his hat trick, with an empty-netter from center ice at 18:57.
The annual report released Monday by the Global Carbon Project provides fuel to environmentalists to argue that the slowdown in emissions growth was more of a fluke than the start of a pattern.
A fluke play by the computer: another run stuffed behind the line, a fumble, a pile, and then Dalton Hilliard picking it back up and running all the way for the game's only touchdown.
Amazon declined to offer a public statement on the matter, but TechCrunch has confirmed that the Amazon assortment officially includes these two devices — that is, their listings are not a fluke or a mistake.
Stranger Things quickly became one of the streaming service's most beloved shows after the first season dropped in 2016, and the success of season two proved that the show's initial popularity wasn't a fluke.
To investigate whether the new findings were a fluke, Dr. Zamora and her colleagues analyzed four similar, rigorous trials that tested the effects of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid.
At the end of the year, she said Salazar told her that making the Olympic team had been a fluke and that she could not expect to be an elite runner weighing 20093 pounds.
Watching them pummel a sad parade of Blue Jays pitchers on Wednesday afternoon, though, they certainly seemed like a team that's unstoppable, their unbelievable 17-2 start to the season clearly not a fluke.
Still, polls show Trump has a big lead in New Hampshire, so he's likely to dismiss his Iowa showing as a fluke driven by Cruz's appeal to evangelicals, who are a power in Iowa.
"Old Town Road" now appears likely to prompt a trend of compound remixes with English-languge artists, many of whom mistook "Despacito" as a fluke or otherwise underestimated the Latin remix standard's potential applications.
The timeless appeal of "Jam" is courtesy of Jackson's smooth transition into a musical genre that many were calling a fluke but which he saw as a potential vehicle to reach a wider audience.
Like the time Marc Jacobs needed to overnight its new collection from the factory in Italy to New York Fashion Week, and a fluke snowstorm hit the Italian countryside, making the mountain route impassable.
That sequence of events might have stretched the limits of a Hollywood story, but Springer, who homered and doubled in Game 22012, has made it clear that his October success was not a fluke.
Still, polls show he has a big lead in New Hampshire, so he's likely dismiss his Iowa showing as a fluke driven by Cruz's appeal to evangelicals as the contest moves into mainstream waters.
His election in 2016 was essentially a fluke of the Electoral College: Fewer than 100,000 votes in three Rust Belt states made it irrelevant that three million more Americans had voted for his opponent.
I have to assume from the warm reception greeting previous outings of Ensemble for the Romantic Century that the problem in this case is just a fluke, a bad fit of subject and method.
This also seems a good time for Osaka to remember that the controlled power and controlled emotion that she displayed to win in New York and again in Australia were anything but a fluke.
A: It is, but when you start slow and steady, and when you know you have the power to deliver… whatever I have achieved till now is not a fluke, and it hasn't happened overnight.
That raises the question of whether Quicken's meteoric rise was a fluke of timing and historically low interest rates, or whether the company has truly disrupted an entrenched local culture of handshake real estate deals.
It's a very noticeable change: And no, this is not a fluke: Researchers have estimated that up to 95 percent of the long-term decline in Arctic sea ice has been driven by human activity.
The Ducks blew a two-goal lead in the final 22 20173/22017 minutes of regulation but avoided a potentially crushing defeat on Corey Perry's third overtime goal of the postseason off a fluke deflection.
"I think at the heart of every actor is a little voice saying it's a fluke and it's going to go away any moment, and I'm no different," the 66-year-old actor told CNBC.
An IMDB clue last month hinted that serial killer Monte Rissell, who appeared in the show's fourth episode and was played by Sam Strike, will be back again, but that could have been a fluke.
The DRC and surrounding countries often have outbreaks because they have a "reservoir" of infected bats and non-human primates that can transmit the disease to humans — "so this is not a fluke," Fauci says.
Some of my square lay outside the park itself, a fluke of boundary-drawing that Mr. Allen assured me did not matter because any squirrels I saw that close to the park lived inside it.
" By the way, Vick also clapped back at everyone saying Jackson's stats are inflated by playing two sorry teams ... telling us, "You don't go out and throw 5 touchdown passes and call it a fluke.
Released by the Atlanta Braves after a couple windswept home runs and 40 otherwise forgettable plate appearances, the six-time All-Star did little to disabuse the notion that his disastrous 2017 was a fluke.
Placed in the proper context, it may be the that the study builds on many previous studies and rigorously tested theory, or that it was a one-off that may very well be a fluke.
They say the second-place finish in Boston was a fluke, pulled off on a day of driving rain, 204-mile-per-hour headwinds and 230-degree weather that felled several elites from warmer climes.
Alabama is among the most conservative states in the country, and Republicans see Jones's victory there two years ago as a fluke – more the result of a flawed GOP contender than a winning Democratic message.
Those "soft" indicators won't factor into the calculation of GDP, but December's large drop in retail sales will — even if it turns out to be a fluke that's revised away later, as many economists expect.
There have been a variety of unexpected events in the primaries, but the last time anyone made it into the Senate by way of a primary challenge was 85033 (and that was a fluke, too).
Last season, it was a divisional-round loss to the Minnesota Vikings on a 61-yard touchdown reception as time expired — a fluke play that seemed impossible to replicate in terms of soul-crushing consequences.
In many scientific disciplines, that's the threshold beyond which study results can be declared "statistically significant," which is often interpreted to mean that it's unlikely the results were a fluke, a result of random chance.
"This second [discovery] should convince anyone who was skeptical of the first discovery that this isn't a fluke," Dave Reitze, the executive director of the LIGO Lab, run out of MIT and Caltech, tells me.
If the U.S. Open run was a fluke, his journey to the Wimbledon final was a demonstration of all the hours and hours of hard graft he had put in over the ensuing 10 months.
If this were the only instance of Winter Games being cool with normal human sexuality over "the journey" or PG-romance, it would be easy to write off Kevin and Ashley's frank discussion as a fluke.
Most of the time, psychologists consider findings to be significant if the p-value is less than 0.05, meaning there's a 95 percent chance the finding is real and a 5 percent chance it's a fluke.
While he noted that beating the U.S., particularly on the road, would provide his team a helpful confidence boost for future matches, Sampson was adamant that the win came from talent parity, not merely a fluke.
That wasn't enough to boost the GOP contender, who wasn't among the top-tier candidates Republican leaders hoped would challenge Edwards as they sought to prove that the Democrat's longshot victory in 2015 was a fluke.
Enter Keenum, who had been stamped with the label of journeyman backup until last season, but will now be asked to prove that his 11-32 record as a starter in 2017 was not a fluke.
Virginia partisans might explain the Cavaliers' postseason flailing as a fluke combined with injury trouble — the appendectomy that limited Justin Anderson's minutes in 2015; the unknown illness that sidelined Isaiah Wilkins in last year's elimination game.
"I think some people wanted to try to dismiss what happened here last time as a fluke," said Woodard, referring to the 2016 Iowa caucuses where Sanders came close to beating the eventual nominee Hillary Clinton.
But who does, when the difference between the three, formerly four, Boatwright sisters and the four girls murdered the previous year at a church in Birmingham is hardly more than a fluke of time and place?
Lots of pressure, the dawn of a sacred quest, the fact that Olympic hosts traditionally start a bit slow in their first matches — you could rationalize the whole thing as a fluke, if you really wanted to.
When the financial crisis hit in the fall of 2008, it was not an act of God or a fluke of history; it was the result of choices made in Washington and in financial institutions and markets.
Other polls of key battleground states show that these latest numbers aren't a fluke; a mid-May poll from Quinnipiac focusing on Pennsylvania has Harris tying Trump 45% to 45%, while Warren beats Trump 53% to 44%.
The Sabres were limited to a fluke goal in that meeting with Philadelphia and were blanked 3-0 by Boston on Tuesday, two strong examples why the team sports the 31st-ranked offense (2.1 goals per game).
The figures, which more than triple expectations and exceed "even the most optimistic forecasts," also indicate that a strong opening weekend was not a fluke, and that customers are continuing to warm up to contactless transit technology.
Any clear-eyed reader can see that his father was undone not by occasionally treating himself to "a manicure and a fancy haircut," but by an incomplete education, lack of professional development, and ultimately a fluke injury.
They don't yet understand that this wasn't a fluke of wind or rain or luck, that this was the extraordinary response by people such as yourselves — the work you did to save so much of this community.
One hundred and nine years later, scientists can confirm that this sound, described by one early explorer as "odd after the usual Antarctic silence" was not a trick of the mens' imaginations, nor was it a fluke.
The closest analogy would be [Valéry] Giscard d'Estaing's election in 1974, and that was a fluke because there was a split in the Gaullist Party and one faction supported Giscard, who came out of a centrist party.
Coming back as an older horse proved California Chrome's 2014 Triple Crown run was not a fluke, which made him more commercial as a stallion, and it meant his popularity with the general public continued to grow.
One NDP candidate, Bob Chamberlin, suggested Manly's win earlier this year in the by-election in Nanaimo-Ladysmith was in part a fluke thanks to low voter turnout for a contest just months from the general election.
By the slimmest of margins, however, the number of deaths failed to meet a standard known as statistical significance – at least a 95-percent certainty that the high rate of brain cancer was not simply a fluke.
Far from a fluke, argues Sismondo, revolutionaries would continue to incite change from bar stools, a more recent example being the Stonewall riots of 1969, made possible by the solidification of a gay community through clandestine bar meetings.
Gavin Phillips, a National Weather Service forecaster in New Orleans, said this week's flooding was due in part to a fluke of nature that saw wide variations in rainfall totals from one part of the city to another.
According to the laws of fashion (hemlines that go up must come down; minimalism will have an equal and opposite maximalist reaction), one example of anything is a fluke, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend.
It really goes to the core of Sanders' belief in this campaign, which is that his 2016 effort was not a fluke and he will win by moving voters to where he is, not by changing his strategy.
"If you had one deputy that doesn't go in, it could be easily called a lack of courage, or a mistake, or a fluke," said Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alaina, was killed in the rampage.
Korean record labels have gradually slithered their way into global prominence over the past decade, but with the exception of Psy's "Gangnam Style," a comedic novelty song and hence a fluke, the American market has proven difficult to crack.
This week, with Democrat Hillary Clinton mostly on the fundraising circuit on the West Coast, Trump will have a chance to show whether his headline-grabbing speech Thursday was a fluke or the start of a more sustained reset.
Zidane's Real Madrid suffered, to use his word, right through the two legs of the semifinal, squeezing through on the basis of a fluke goal — an own goal off a defender's leg in the Bernabéu stadium on Wednesday night.
But now, after a fluke involving a friend of a friend of a friend in Nairobi who had broached the idea of my writing about the prime minister's coming trip to Africa, miraculously, or terrifyingly, the interview was on.
Or will we one day look back at the GOP's neoconservative era as something of a fluke, in which this highly ideological movement dominated the party for only about 20 years, and led American foreign policy for only four?
To be clear, Sharapova's talent isn't a fluke — she's won as many singles Grand Slam tournaments as Martina Hingis, a former world No. 53 and the dominant player in the late '90s, and is only two behind Venus Williams.
After rallying for a win against Cincinnati last week, Buffalo will get a chance to prove its hot start is not a fluke against the Patriots (2115.5-2116), who have been comically dominant on both sides of the ball.
Across more than 20 minutes of play, the Senators have led for only a bit more than four minutes total, their victories propped up by a fluke goal in Game 213 and a double-overtime goal in Game 23.
Even while celebrating an accomplishment like The Band's Visit, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done — and for these actors, that means both being grateful for the opportunity and making sure this show isn't just a fluke.
The current flu season is particularly deadly due to the specific virus strains combined with a "fluke" that rendered this year's vaccine less effective than desired, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tells Axios.
But Federer will turn 35 in August, and with two of the so-called Big Four (Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and Andy Murray) already out of the tournament, it led Djokovic to speculate that perhaps this is more than just a fluke.
Beyond the accolades the album afforded him individually, Shawty Lo proved that snap wasn't a fluke, and even with the relative barrenness and silly nature of its production, the subgenre could still house some of the most hardcore content in rap.
"The fact that we saw the same pattern on both Pine Cay and Water Cay is one of the big reasons we think this pattern wasn't a fluke," Donihue said via email, referring to two islands in the Turks and Caicos.
"The trend is real — it's not just a fluke," said Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the Broadway League, which has made a concerted effort to introduce young people to theater, in part by bringing high school sophomores to shows.
That this idiosyncratic and flawed but ultimately highly effective technocrat served for the 12 years between 2002 and 2014 was the strange result of a man being unexpectedly aligned with the historical times — or, we might say, something of a fluke.
Clarendon's 2017 season, for all of its success, may be underselling her overall game — she has made only 15.4 percent of her 3-point attempts, by far the worst mark of her career, which she and Cooper believe is a fluke.
Dylan Gambrell scored a fluke goal early in the third period to break a scoreless tie as the short-handed San Jose Sharks spoiled the NHL head-coaching debut of Minnesota's Dean Evason, defeating the host Wild 21.98-27 Saturday afternoon.
The frequent coordination problems might have been a fluke, but Mr. Meister also imposed ill-advised tempos including a wet-blanket andante in "Là ci darem la mano" that all but suffocated this tender duet between Don Giovanni and Zerlina.
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and police commissioner James P. O'Neill said at their monthly news conference on crime statistics that it was too early to tell if the increase was a fluke, or a harbinger of a new trend.
But for months, at least a vague haze of doubt hung over the record because due to a fluke of circumstances three of the four scheduled games between the Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs were scheduled for late in the season.
Investors increased wagers Tuesday that the Fed will not raise rates in the near future, while central bank officials await more data to help determine whether the 38,000 jobs reported Friday for May was a fluke or a dire warning for the economy.
She faces off against Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and Jackson (Jesse Williams ) while treating a rabbi with a fluke case of TEN, which causes his skin to separate from his body as part of an allergic reaction to antibiotics that the chief subscribed.
In the process Mr. Cruz — the high school student who once recited the Constitution from memory and the Princeton debater who dazzled judges with his ability to entrap less shrewd rivals — showed the American public that his surging candidacy is not a fluke.
Then, just to let you know that things weren't a fluke, he went and achieved a similar goal—this time after starting with a near-half field sprint down the right flank: Those defenders are going to need hours of therapy after this.
In the end, then, the Nevada results provide ammunition for the Clinton campaign's argument that Sanders's early strength is a fluke of rural white states where he's camped out for months — and that it wouldn't easily translate to the rest of the country.
But as Dr. Cranmer noted at the time, there was a one-in-93 chance this was a fluke — far from the 1-in-3.5-million odds of mere chance, known as five-sigma, that is considered the gold standard for a discovery.
"This shows that what's happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon: We know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," a NASA official said of the findings.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits surged to near a 1-1/6573-year high last week, but economists dismissed the jump as a fluke and said temporary factors, including a partial government shutdown, were to blame.
And the event that transformed the company, turning it into a combine that harvested living space around the globe, was a fluke: Barry Manilow's drummer went on tour and asked if he could rent out his place without being present to provide breakfast.
"This isn't Ronald Reagan with a clean $1 trillion balance sheet and with a fluke GOP and a Southern Democratic coalition that only materialized because he got shot," Stockman said in reference to John Hinkley Jr. attempting to assassinate Reagan in Washington, D.C., in 1981.
Knowing what we do about Malick's process, with hundreds of hours of footage shot by various teams and underlings that's then pored over and reconstructed in an edit room, maybe Tree of Life was just a fluke — a happy accident that may never be repeated.
Google stunned the world by defeating Go legend Lee Se-dol yesterday, and it wasn't a fluke — AlphaGo, the AI program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has just won the second game of a five-game Go match being held in Seoul, South Korea.
Of course, the capitalization discrepancy in the Packingham opinions and others may be due instead to the personal styles of the justices or their clerks (though Alito has capitalized before), or may simply be a fluke of drafting (though Alito's usage certainly seems intentional).
But that leads to bolder proclamations that 2016 was "not a fluke" and was indeed a fundamental realigning event, as well as to overly charitable interpretations of her subjects' intentions (as she once quipped, "There's always 'some' portion of anyone's followers who are racist").
So when we see Ryan suddenly having a breakout season at approximately the midway point in his NFL career, it's hard not to wonder if this is just a fluke, and whether five years from now his probable MVP award will look ridiculous in retrospect.
That may have been a fluke, but then came the embellished platform Crocs for $850, which again produced shock and horror online — and were sold out on some sites before they even arrived, thanks to the number of pre-orders engendered by all that chat.
Separate and independent investigations at FiveThirtyEight and The Ringer have confirmed what had been suspected for months: that Major League Baseball's recent and remarkable surge in home runs is neither a fluke, nor just the result of hitters switching up their approach at the plate en masse.
As Republicans in key Rust Belt states take stock of their losses in the midterm elections, there's a big question on their minds looking ahead to the 22018 presidential race: Was Donald Trump's 22016 win in each of those states a fluke, or can it be repeated?
"I think it's only been in the last decade that we've started to understand that [Hurricane] Katrina wasn't a fluke, that there will be ongoing, massive events, weather events, taking place, exposing potentially trillions of dollars of real estate to coastal flooding and damages," said Delgado.
The show's theme was built around a fluke … In a behind-the-scenes feature in the DVD release of the show's first season, composer Mark Snow explains that he dropped his arm on his keyboard in frustration after a long scoring session with series creator Chris Carter.
It's the same thing with Jose Aldo; he's just taking a different tack: that of the wronged and aggrieved True Champion, knocked from his perch by a fluke and now, in defiance of all the laws of justice and decency, being denied his chance at a rematch.
Y Tu Mama También (22006) This brilliant Mexican road trip drama about sex, growing up, and, uh, more sex immediately pushed Alfonso Cuarón into the spotlight when it hit theaters in 21980 and the director has spent the past two decades proving that it wasn't a fluke.
It would be a sign that the President's surprise victory in 2016 wasn't a fluke, but instead a mandate that Trump's brand of Republican politics -- from his brash rhetoric to his hard right turn on immigration, to his disregard traditional GOP orthodoxy on trade -- was the future.
Alas, the name has since been deleted from the movie database page, which could mean one of two things: Either Gendry is, in fact, in "Eastwatch," and someone removed the name in the interest of protecting spoilers, or the name was just a fluke, and he won't appear.
It was warm and funny but also incredibly clear-eyed about how structural inequalities in American society meant that Piper landing in Litchfield prison was a fluke, while the prison profited off of other inmates who were either there for decades or in and out, over and over again.
NBCUniversal heads into the next three Olympics — all of them in Asia — faced with a critical question: Was the lower-than-expected prime-time viewership for the just-completed Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro a fluke or a harbinger of fraying audiences over the next six years?
Then, a fluke goal in the 69th minute followed by another five minutes later suddenly tied the game, and Belgium snatched the win with a stunning, sweeping play finished off by the substitute Nacer Chadli, sending what was practically the final kick of the game into the Japanese net.
For Republicans, 2020 is their opportunity to prove that 2016 wasn't a fluke -- that the "forgotten men and women" (in Trump's words) are still out there, still support the President and still have something to prove to the mainstream media, the Democrats and elites of all stripes and sizes.
I can still remember the day in 2014 when I learned that the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art — a spectacular landmark widely considered his masterpiece — had caught fire; a fluke accident that started when a hot projector ignited gases from a student's spray foam canister.
It proved that Samsung's success with the original Galaxy S wasn't a fluke, established the Korean company as a force to be reckoned with in the smartphone world, and paved the way for the Galaxy S line of phones to become the de facto Android flagships going forward.
To make sure it wasn't just a fluke and my sample size too unsavvy, I asked several tech-savvy friends and coworkers (these are people who are aren't gadget nerds like me, but know of the trends happening in the tech industry) and they, too, didn't know Dell made tablets.
Though it can't be expected that investments will keep the pace sent in the past two months, Magic Leap's monster round shouldn't be discounted as a fluke that just skews the graph, it's more representative of the excitement directed towards the future adoption rates of augmented reality tech in general.
The incident raises many questions: about what happened to Cooper's blog, why it was flagged for deletion to begin with, why he never received any kind of warning — and whether his experience was a fluke or a sign of a greater risk involved for all of us who host content online.
In a rational universe, a long two-point bank shot like the game-winner Pierce made with a hand in his face for the Wizards in the 2015 playoffs would be recognized as the product of pure luck, dismissed as a fluke among all flukes, regarded with bemusement and nothing more.
"This shows that what's happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon: we know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies said in announcing the report.
The rookie quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles got off to a 363-0 start, and had not thrown an interception until his final pass of Week 4, but that is now seeming like a fluke as he has 11 interceptions on the season, including six over his last three games.
During that streak, Brooks defeated a tough veteran in John Alessio, avenged his loss to Awad, won the Bellator title from the highly-hyped Michael Chandler, erased any possibility of a fluke win by beating Chandler again, and most recently, defended his title against credible foes in Dave Jansen and Marcin Held.
To a lot of people in tech, Apple's success can seem like a fluke, and every new hurdle the company has faced — the rise of Android, the death of Steve Jobs, the saturation of the smartphone market, the ascendance of artificial intelligence and cloud software — has looked certain to do it in.
Cisneros was the first candidate Justice Democrats recruited and endorsed this cycle, and if she pulls off a victory this week, it will cement the organization as a serious player in the electoral landscape — or, if she loses, give fodder to the organization's critics, who argue Ocasio-Cortez's win was a fluke.
" — Rajiv Nathan "Given that my coaching practice is focused on careers and confidence, clients come to me all the time suffering from Imposter Syndrome—feeling like it's all a fluke that they've made it as far as they have and any minute now their bosses will realize that they don't have what it takes.
There's some recent precedent for a candidate coming out of nowhere to win South Carolina—Newt Gingrich in 2012—but that's largely seen as a fluke, thanks to his commanding debate performance in the state just before the primary, as well as the controversy over the Iowa caucus results stunting momentum out of that state.
Regardless, from Week 7 forward, Indianapolis allowed the fewest points in the N.F.L. And now, after nearly shutting out the Houston Texans in the wild-card round, the Colts will be asked to prove that their success is not a fluke against the Chiefs, who scored the third-most points in a single N.F.L. season.
It's possible that the high performance in this case is a fluke: Since fruit fly embryos develop very quickly, perhaps in their case "evolution has found this optimal solution because of that pressure to do everything very rapidly," said James Briscoe, a biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London who did not participate in this study.
Plenty of articles have been written and videos made about the match itself and Paul Caligiuri's goal in the 22st minute —called the "shot heard round the world," Revolutionary War and baseball be damned—and there has been much debate about whether it was a spectacular strike or a fluke because the sun got in goalkeeper Michael Maurice's eyes.
"So in the 240th year of the independence of the United States, in three states by 78,000 votes, the American people by a fluke elected an imbecilic former reality TV show host and con man whose only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his night stand," Schmidt told co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
If he proves to be cured — which his doctors correctly state would be a premature claim at this point -- the medical community will have proof that the previous case of Timothy Ray Brown was not a fluke, and will have more opportunities to compare and learn from these cases in pursuit of a cure that can be delivered at scale.
And while O'Rourke came tantalizingly close to knocking off Ted Cruz last fall, that race seemed to have all the hallmarks of a fluke—a Republican senator who even Republicans can't stomach, running in a strong Democratic midterm cycle against a fresh-faced liberal who eschewed all forms of conventional political wisdom and ran a campaign so novel, so tireless, and so perfectly made for social media that it became a viral sensation.
Here's how the Jaguars rank defensively: Yards per game: 27th Passing yards per game: 2nd Points per game: 1st Interceptions: 1st The Jaguars are allowing 15.7 points per game, and that includes two special teams touchdowns by the Rams in Week 6 and a fluke run by Bilal Powell when everyone thought he was down but he got up and kept running for a 75-yard touchdown (when he probably was down but the cameras didn't have the angle to prove it).
News: I'm told by two sources that CNN earned approx $100M above expected election year lift in TV & digital thanks to Trump fascination With Trump's poll numbers cratering over the past month, conservative media figures like Bill Kristol have tried to keep the top of the ticket from bringing down the GOP brand, calling Trump a "fluke" candidate and trying to shift the blame to the media for fomenting his rise—and nauseating lies—with billions of dollars in free coverage.
John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 28503 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 22019 MORE's (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign manager in 2008, also said Trump's victory over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE was a fluke.
I have 7 children and these diapers aren't the cheapest I use them because I like them and both my younger children liked them as well so I can not afford for them to just take money when they feel like it I have to account for every penny I spend and when this occurs it puts me in a tough spot... I had the company close my account entirely because even thoughI really like the diapers the whole situation has left a real bad impression on me... And I'm not sure I even want to deal with it I want others to be aware that they may do this and blame it on a fluke it can't be just my account that is not being sent verification emails before hand stating that they are processing or shipping... people need to be aware of the situation so that they can monitor their accounts.
Back in November I had a issue where the company pulled money from my account without my permission and they said they saw the mistake and it was a fluke... they over drew my bank account and refunded me but it took a few days for it to hit my bank I never even received a apology let alone a offer to refund my overdraft fee's..After all that was said and done they admitted it was a weird fluke on the computers side of their company and reassured me this would never happen again.. I love their diapers and wanted to continue using them so I decided to try again at this point a supervisor assured me she was going to watch my account personally and made sure I would receive the proper emails with warnings of when they would betaking funds out see the time before this I never received any emails except the one stating that your Bundle is on it's way.. she said that was a weird fluke and asked if it went to my junk mail.

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