Eventually I had a stroke of luck: The police came.
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This turned out to be Baalsrud's great stroke of luck.
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But fame came to Bernstein through a stroke of luck.
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By an odd stroke of luck, my room was spared.
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It was super organic, and just really a stroke of luck.
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Then they had a stroke of luck: Kendall Jenner was calling.
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In the end, Zelensky was saved by a stroke of luck.
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And it wouldn't have been possible without a stroke of luck.
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At first glance, Cuban's amazing success looks like a stroke of luck.
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Clinton seems to have been a stroke of luck for the play.
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In a stroke of luck, the US government was doing the same thing.
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Over the course of A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, Ben graduates from Bailey.
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In a stroke of luck, he discovered the two sides had something in common.
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The 53-year-old first got into the business by a stroke of luck.
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Indeed, by a stroke of luck, Hunts Point Market avoided serious damage during Sandy.
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There was one stroke of luck: Z-Axis was purchased by Activision during development.
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Getting STONE and the TONE/TON/ON/O progression was a stroke of luck.
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For United States investigators, the arrest of Mr. Schmidt is a stroke of luck.
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However, the second stroke of luck was only discovered the morning after England's raucous celebrations.
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A quarterfinal with Uruguay was decided by a set piece and a stroke of luck.
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Wilson escaped his addiction with his life, a stroke of luck many in Reading don't receive.
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But in a stroke of luck, she hears the sounds of a motorcycle in the distance.
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That he was available in their time of need seemed like a great stroke of luck.
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Maybe her selection for the role of Cleo wasn't just a stroke of luck after all.
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But by a stroke of luck, I was able to find a window to get there.
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That it happens to be Donald J. Trump is, for him, an extraordinary stroke of luck.
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Mexico is clearly hoping to have a different stroke of luck for their game against Brazil today.
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But the Kelly bar is exceptionally low, so America may be in for a stroke of luck.
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Still, it is a stroke of luck to find ingredients this fresh and good, in skilled hands.
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is an intellectually rich book with a razor-sharp sense of irony.
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It was only by a stroke of luck that Hardell said they ever received help from the platform.
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Either by design or stroke of luck, the Terminator franchise is set up brilliantly for logically explainable reboots.
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By a crazy stroke of luck, our current president has decided he wants to provide it to them.
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Damian Lewis' stroke of luck came after one too many drinks during a night out in Los Angeles.
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If, by some magnificent stroke of luck, he is, then get whatever it is in your possession immediately.
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INSIDER found four examples of famous historical figures who owed their big breaks to a stroke of luck.
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Philae found Then just weeks ago Philae returned from the cosmic dead when scientists had a stroke of luck.
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But Seiffert had a stroke of luck: He learned that a colleague was moving closer to prime Zenkerella territory.
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She's one of those people for whom fame feels like an organic progression rather than a stroke of luck.
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Without an unlikely stroke of luck, Gulf killifish might have been completely killed out of the Houston Ship Channel.
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And besides the stroke of luck and good sense that was the Louisiana Purchase, his presidency was a fiasco.
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The first sentence of A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, Ann Beattie's first novel in eight years, is a fragment.
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is the story of Ben, who is a member of LaVerdere's Leading Lights — a.k.a.
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In a stroke of luck, however, my car was let in for free to improve the flow of traffic.
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Winning the lottery is a stroke of luck few have the privilege of experiencing even once in their lives.
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Then word of frozen military aid leaked out — a stroke of luck that meant he never had to follow through.
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In an incredible stroke of luck, several executives had dumped their stock in the company prior to the news going public.
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But by the end of the weekend, I cherished having space to myself and saw it as a stroke of luck.
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A longtime DJ and dancefloor dweller, Tony Rainwater's foray into production came from a stroke of luck—and also a pluck.
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In a weird stroke of luck, all my predictions about who died, who hurt Amabella, and Jane's rapist were spot-on.
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Her father looked up in astonishment at the clearing skies and proclaimed that their stroke of luck had protected their crops.
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It was just a stroke of luck that the name Jupiter featured on a sanctions list, thus raising a red flag.
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His first stroke of luck was winning the green card lottery, a U.S. government-sponsored program that provides a path to citizenship.
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The surf connection is still pretty unexpected, but as Grind tells it, his collaboration with Allan was basically a stroke of luck.
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But here's the kicker: Failing to get that sitcom was the single greatest stroke of luck that's happened in my entire career.
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Photograph by Jess Paley / Courtesy Nora Paley Paley counted the publication of "The Little Disturbances of Man" as a stroke of luck.
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Perhaps that was one fitting final stroke of luck for a spacecraft that had survived countless close calls throughout its checkered history.
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A WONDERFUL STROKE OF LUCK By Ann Beattie When you start publishing fiction, it's impossible to see where the road might lead.
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Within a week, he found manufacturing partners outside of China but didn't have to use them thanks to a stroke of luck.
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No one was injured, but race organizers say that casualties could have been severe – but by a stroke of luck the 9 a.m.
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Laprise said that the windshield wiper was a "stroke of luck" as he simply found it across the street when making the car.
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"The failed policy of the chancellor is a stroke of luck for our party," said Alexander Gauland, a leader of Alternative for Germany.
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By some ginormous stroke of luck, I noticed that four of the most famous landmarks in Wyoming all have the same letter count!
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But she often said that her decision was a stroke of luck, since she had no inkling that she would marry so often.
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And thanks to some fast-acting planning and a stroke of luck, his business won't be hurt in any significant way, he said.
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He jumped in, waded around and had a stroke of luck; fresh-pressed juice still packed in ice was there waiting for him.
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But in a stroke of luck, a fellow surfer who is also a nurse found him and rushed him to the emergency room.
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In a stroke of luck, the startup that would become Uber's AI lab happened to have been raised by NYU Tandon's Data Future Labs.
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Their story would have ended there if a stroke of luck hadn't brought their respective owners, Brian Herrera and Cathleen Cavin, together on Tinder.
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This sounds bad, but by some stroke of luck, one of the few books in the Airbnb was "The Moscow Puzzles" by Boris Kordemsky.
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That's an extraordinary stroke of luck for Blagojevich, since any other president would probably have seen right through the ex-governor's plea for mercy.
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Assuming you got some severance, getting laid off from a job in which you felt stuck and uninspired seems like a stroke of luck.
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In a stroke of luck, he just found out that he'll have an extra ticket and offers to sell it to me at face value!
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In a stroke of luck for the anthropologists doing the work, the czar's daughters had contracted measles in March 1917 and posed together with shaved heads.
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I positioned myself underneath the house and, in a stroke of luck, managed to peek out at the perfect moment and catch my enemy flat-footed.
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While being held in the Otero County jail, however, she had her first stroke of luck when the court appointed Rachel Nathanson as her public defender.
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It's a stroke of luck indeed that most of us can celebrate all we want tonight and have plenty of time to recover in bed tomorrow.
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The attack was halted by a stroke of luck: the ransomware had a kill switch that a British employee in a cybersecurity firm managed to activate.
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That was such a stroke of luck: She told her friends about us — like mega-babes Chelsea Leyland and Adwoa Aboah, who also now wear our jewelry.
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So I considered it a special stroke of luck to be able to speak with Rothwell to celebrate the digital release of Insecure: The Complete Second Season.
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In what could be an incredible stroke of luck, scientists may have stumbled upon some rather helpful bacteria after conducting a microbial sweep of the London building.
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"Part of me thought I had been accepted due to a stroke of luck, and that I would not measure up to the other students," wrote one upperclassman.
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The wood-fueled pizza oven in the middle of the dining room was a stroke of luck, fitting in with the theme that also led to the name.
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Hanne recognizes and owns her story, but also realizes that it couldn't have happened if a stroke of luck hadn't led her to flip through that Dutch magazine.
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"A Wonderful Stroke of Luck" does contain some elegant sentences and cutting observations that remind a reader of Beattie at her strongest and provide some moments of pleasure.
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The move by Thailand's military government is a stroke of luck for the boys, who play for a youth soccer team called Moo Pa, or the Wild Boars.
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"Out of a stroke of luck," Draper says, he was invited to a post-recount Christmas party in Austin, Texas, with other journalists and members of Bush's staff.
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Lewandowski got another stroke of luck when the referee failed to spot him putting Bauyrzhan Islamkhan in a chokehold, a move which could easily have earned him another yellow.
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This is a stroke of luck for Trump, who has been so preoccupied with the superficial drama of his presidency that he's barely mentioned the coming storm at all.
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Getting three seed entries from my word list to stack in the upper left was both a ridiculous stroke of luck and a testament to Paolo's grid design skills.
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WASHINGTON — It was a stroke of luck that landed Neil M. Gorsuch in the chambers of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on a summer day nearly a quarter-century ago.
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Modest Mouse lead singer Isaac Brock admits falling asleep while driving -- which caused a chain reaction wreck -- and only a stroke of luck separated him from Caitlyn Jenner's fate.
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In a recent stroke of luck, a specimen belonging to Biswamoyopterus was unexpectedly uncovered in 2018 in the collections at the Chinese Academy of Sciences's Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ).
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If by some stroke of luck Congress managed to pass a good bill preserving Title II authority, what's to stop ISPs from moving their game of "ping pong" to Congress?
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At the young age of 23, Delgado left his home to pursue a better life in Lima, and he credits his position at Cordano as a good stroke of luck.
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The city of New Bedford was attacked on July 4, 2019, but the city had a stroke of luck as only 4% of government computers were online during the holiday.
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By a stroke of luck, they found that an Apache module in 142 of those pages exposed traffic-counting code, allowing the researchers to estimate how many visitors those pages received.
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In honor of the optimistic, evolved teens, let's just chalk this up to a stroke of luck for Google, the very cool company that commissioned this study in the first place.
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" Mr. Coates added: "By some stroke of luck and by a greater stroke of privilege, my son enjoys a school that is the opposite of what I knew school to be.
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Then somehow, by a stroke of luck, which I partially credit to having happened to have added SKI BOOT to my word list just a few months earlier, I found this solution.
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On a lush hilltop outside town, photographer colleagues of Mr. Marai who had survived the bombing with a stroke of luck briefly put down their cameras to shovel dirt on his grave.
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Medvedev said after the match he had been frustrated with how his opponent reacted to a stroke of luck during the match, which prompted his exchange with Schwartzman and, later, the umpire.
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By contrast, corals in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef had a stroke of luck in the form of a "serendipitous Fiji cyclone which cooled the water down" with high rainfall.
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And while the criminal justice system's decision to grant him early parole is an enormous stroke of luck, Alexander will be walking out of prison straight into something of a geopolitical buzz saw.
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It was a lifesaving stroke of luck, because minutes later a car rear-ended the chopper, partially crunching it, and the cycle the guy should have been riding would have been utterly destroyed.
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Another stroke of luck: Once the samples were ready, Sherris cold-emailed Jade Lai, the founder of her favorite store Creatures of Comfort — and to her surprise Lai, a total stranger, was interested.
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What a stroke of luck that two of Renaissance Rome's most ravishing streets, Via del Pellegrino and the intersecting Via dei Banchi Vecchi, are lined with some of the city's most tempting boutiques.
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This was an unplanned stroke of luck for the U.S. Muhandis was a longtime Iraqi terrorist who led a proxy group for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps known as the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia.
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Gotham Gator, New York In 2000, by a mere stroke of luck, I logged into the restaurant's online reservation system at precisely the right time to secure a table for a party of four.
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Mallouk says some investors take brutal advantage of this, which makes it essentially a stroke of luck that the public didn't lose a lot of money investing in WeWork the way private investors did.
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Originally, KITTYCORNER was the only revealer — It was truly a stroke of luck that I noticed in the midst of filling the grid that LITTER BOXES both fit symmetrically and described the same gimmick.
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On Friday, in a stroke of luck, the camera was trained on the area of the sky where the mock warhead appeared to plunge back to earth, about 125 miles from the Japanese coast.
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In a stroke of luck for Vardakostas, Ross was a kindred tinkerer: He had built his own pizza oven and several barbecue contraptions in his backyard, one of which tweeted its temperature every five minutes.
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In what Huang calls a massive stroke of luck, they were able to secure funding from a top gaming company in Japan, whose CEO hailed from Niigita – the tiny town where Huang had taught English.
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In a stroke of luck, the friendly owner allowed Sherris to set up a small area in the factory where she could screen print the suits; each one is printed by hand by Sherris herself.
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It is a remarkable stroke of luck that this random bullet managed to miss virtually every single one of the reported 38,616 people in attendance last night, and only nicked one person in the arm.
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However, by a stroke of luck, they counter-proposed STOP DROP AND ROLL (in the sense of getting ready for an emergency) and asked if I could come up with something to balance it out.
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Anyway, the 76ers might need a stroke of luck right now, seeing as how Dario's teammate Joel Embiid found himself in the hospital with a facial contusion after colliding with the recently-returned Markelle Fultz.
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All of it, Oregon environmental officials said, might have gone into the river but for a stroke of luck that carried the oil instead into a water treatment plant a few hundred feet from the riverbank.
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It was a real stroke of luck (I'd keep this to myself, of course) that Arty, let alone Paloma, emerged from the fog, or the deep, or the forest, or wherever it is everybody has gone.
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Though no doubt Scovell would have had it otherwise, the fact that "Just the Funny Parts" is landing at such a charged moment — when women are exquisitely, bruisingly fed up — may be a stroke of luck.
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Noticing that the reveal SEATTLE would fit right between the S and the last E of SPACE NEEDLE was a huge stroke of luck, and I quickly banged out the rest of the grid from there.
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We watch as she negotiates the unknown through a generous teacher and family members, including a grandfather who is with her at the "prison-village," a stroke of luck, since most nisei did not have that advantage.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a once in a lifetime stroke of luck, a shopper found and purchased a pencil drawing by Egon Schiele in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens, New York.
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It's fossil was uncovered through a stroke of luck, when an extremely low tide in 2011 exposed the typically submerged rock where it was embedded on an island beach as scientists happened to be surveying the area.
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By a stroke of luck, Julian Eggebrecht, the former creative director at now-defunct Super Turrican developer Factor-5, was actually an Analogue customer who loved the products and was excited about the idea of a re-release.
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SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Sebastian Vettel may need to rely on a stroke of luck at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday if the German wants to keep alive his diminishing hopes of claiming a fifth Formula One title.
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This was no stroke of luck — the homeowners, attorney Russell King and his nephew, Dr. Lebron Lackey — specifically built their "dream home" to withstand "the big one," they told the New York Times shortly after the storm hit.
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But the fact that it came from a man who recently compared Trump to Hitler and the visit occurred just before Trump was set to make this crucial speech was a stroke of luck any campaign would die for.
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Earlier this week, a third Doctors Without Borders hospital was bombed by coalition forces in Yemen, and it may just be a stroke of luck that an American-run hospital in Afghanistan hasn't been hit by a drone or bomber.
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It's a risk you have to take as a fan: make a rude remark that'll get the fandom laughing and get big on Twitter, or say something sweet and heartfelt for your fave to possibly see by some stroke of luck.
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That changed in the 57th minute, with a stroke of luck for Seattle, as Kelvin Leerdam smashed a hard shot that deflected off Toronto defender Justin Morrow and past his wrong-footed goalkeeper to give Seattle a 1-0 lead.
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That single word, by a stroke of luck, helped stop the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from paying nearly $1 billion to the cyber-criminals behind a notorious bank heist earlier this year, according to sources familiar with the incident.
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But her only misstep here is a new Jeremih collab where—inevitably in a world where good sex is so often a stroke of luck—their concerted attempt to top the relaxed "Body" with the overreaching "Ecstasy" comes off forced and stiff.
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One stroke of luck for Mr Trudeau was that in 2015 Alberta, home of the carbon-belching tar-sands oil patch, elected a premier from the left-wing New Democratic Party, ending 44 years of unbroken rule by the centre-right Progressive Conservatives.
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Lauren Young was a model from New York City who wrote screenplays and wanted to break into the film business when she had a stroke of luck: She met a woman who had a direct line to the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
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For tens of thousands of homeless New Yorkers, the unusually warm start to this winter has been a seasonal stroke of luck, especially compared to last year, when storm after storm rocked the East Coast, forcing throngs of homeless to take desperate measures.
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But because South Carolina law allows lottery winners to remain anonymous, we may never know the name of the person whose stroke of luck let her walk away with a lump sum of nearly $878 million, the largest payout to a single winner in history.
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But interviews in Kiev with government officials, lawmakers and others close to the Zelensky government have revealed new details of how high-level Ukrainian officials ultimately decided to acquiesce to President Trump's request — and, by a stroke of luck, never had to follow through.
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Parion McCoy tells TMZ ... it was a stroke of luck he was invited onto the stage with CB while he was performing "Loyal" in the first place, but once the boy got up there and shook Breezy's hand -- it was just too much for him.
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When a 7-year-old boy found his father in a state of diabetic shock, he hopped on his bicycle and raced across a busy highway to find help — and, in a stroke of luck, he was spotted by his former school teacher who came to the rescue.
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The graphic designer and actor bears more than a passing resemblance to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and now he is using that genetic stroke of luck to help others as a part of a tongue-in-cheek impersonation that also raises money for causes close to his heart.
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Glimpsing them as they left their own nest was a stroke of luck, and she and a colleague ran after the newly fledged males, dodging through the trees and catching a few in glass vials, which became part of the reference collection of C. explodens described in the paper.
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Then I turn the key and slip into the green-tiled lobby before gliding into the elevator that smells like fresh coffee in the morning, and dignified perfume in the evening, and up I go through the building to my sanctuary, my stroke of luck, my home. Dec.
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The franchise is not entirely rear-focused, but since a shocking stroke of luck left the Pelicans with the top pick in the June 20 draft and the inside track to Duke freshman Zion Williamson, Griffin has been locked in on selling six-time All-Star Anthony Davis on sticking around.
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Whether Hemon's escape was a stroke of luck or a tragic turning point is one of the questions that haunt the various alter egos who proliferate in his short stories and novels, caught between a bewildering life they never wanted and the pall of mass death that hangs over their city.
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The picture has been immortalized as a Black Label Barbie Collection doll and the legendary red bathing suit has been donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. And even though it's been over 40 years since Fawcett's famous photo shoot, the designer of that swimsuit, Norma Kamali, is still very grateful for her stroke of luck.
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The main character, a teenage bootblack living on the streets, may be frugal and mostly honest (apart from a few small cons, including posing as a tax official to cajole fruit from an apple seller), but he can't get a "respectable" job until, in a stroke of luck, he rescues a child, who happens to be the son of a benevolent merchant, from drowning.
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Fans streamed to the exits, and I ended up sneaking down into preposterously good seats for the rest of the game—which was a huge stroke of luck, as the Jays came back to win with an incredible six-run ninth inning that ended with Tim Corcoran (the Rays' fourth pitcher of the frame) walking Aaron Hill with the bases loaded to score Matt Stairs as the winning run.
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