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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.

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fluke

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/fluːk/Used In Literature ↓

A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.

In a Sentence

The first goal was just a fluke.

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Poetry examples for fluke

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.