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An example use of fluke in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… she have won cuz of a fluke and people …”
Fluke is a word that means a surprising occurrence that is not explained by the laws of probability.
the word fluke occurs in english on average 2.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that fluke can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;