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pure luck

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meanings of pureand luck


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pure
adjective
uk /pjʊər/ us /pjʊr/
not mixed with ...
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luck
noun[U]
uk /lʌk/ us /lʌk/
the force that causes things, especially good things, to happen to you by chance and not as a result of your own efforts ...
See more at luck


Examples of pure luck


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This was pureluck for historians and social scientists alike.
One man was chosen by lot to serve, whilst another by pureluck escaped.
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They are rewards for pureluck.
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If lagoons are left, it is pureluck whether sufficient spoil, ash or other material can be found to fill them.
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Hansard archive

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However, one cannot obtain a good decision based on bad information except by pureluck.
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It is possible by good management to mitigate some of its grosser effects, but total avoidance is a matter of pureluck.
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I merely say that it was pureluck that these projects on which we are now co-operating evolved along parallel lines in the two separate countries.
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Prize bounty was pureluck.
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Hansard archive

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Other poker games as well as video poker games based on the same rules were prohibited as being dependent wholly on pureluck.
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He is haunted by his belief that he only escaped from the devil by either pureluck or his own skill.
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When asked how he knew that he said, it was pureluck... you always take credit for lucky guesses.
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Through pureluck, the 502nd became the only one of the four parachute infantry battalions to have an unbroken tie to the later regiment of the same number.
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The method was developed as a response to the fact that finding wolves on foot was almost always a pureluck scenario, due to the wolf's elusiveness.
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