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• Will any of those teams play well enough and get lucky on St. Patrick’s Day?
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• For those who did not get lucky in Neptune, there’s still more cash to be won.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes, teams get lucky and need aligns with how players go off the board.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2021
• At the end of the day, most will agree, hunting is not the time to get lucky with a trick shot or test out a math problem.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
• Those who venture out in the afternoon may get lucky and not need them.
  — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2021
• In a perfect world, the Cavs get lucky and won’t have to worry about parsing through the next cluster of prospects.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 June 2021
• So the Rams give themselves as many chances to get lucky as possible.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• Maybe Harlow will get lucky and prove to the world that acting horny on main can pay off after all.
  — Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2022
• Some get lucky and have new sod survive over the dead grass but most are resodding again in about a year.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• San Jose is also hoping to get lucky in this spring’s NHL draft lottery.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
• And then sometimes music fans can get lucky and save money on a big concert.
  — Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
• In effect, Congress is just hoping that the clerks will get lucky if something happens to them.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
• Leaders who get lucky are never punished for taking the big risk.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
• Several people in different pockets of the state took a chance and walked up to the PHCs to try their luck—and did indeed get lucky.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2021
• So was Myers a genius, or did the Warriors just get lucky, or was magic involved?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2022
• Jazz get lucky as this is a chance for Murray to get off a relatively open 3-point attempt.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
• In order to spread, a new variant must be more transmissible – or just get lucky.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022
• And chances are very good that, when the rains return, somewhere in the grove of trees that spawned the ideology behind the Park Service, a few dozen giants will get lucky once again.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 13 July 2022
• Each online casino on our list is licensed to accept real money bets and will pay out those who get lucky enough to win.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• The mayor of Surfside, Charles W. Burkett, said that rescuers needed to get lucky after days of fires at the site and flooding that had slowed their efforts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
• One approach is founded on the hope that perhaps astronomers will get lucky and chance upon an alien radio broadcast.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• The Patriots need Butler to play like a starting-caliber cornerback again, and need to get lucky with injuries.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• Some get lucky and evade traffic, but no animal, no matter how wily or predatory, is a match for vehicles.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• Then, if productions get lucky, there’s other magic in moviemaking.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• There are other deals to be found, and availability varies by location and other factors, but the good news is that car shoppers might just get lucky this weekend.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
• There are other deals to be found, and availability varies by location and other factors, but the good news is that car shoppers might just get lucky this weekend.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
• Yes, there are some cases where an artist will get lucky and go viral with little to no promo, but doing so still requires some type of prior audience.
  — Christian Anderson (trust'n), Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
• Or somebody who had not made a particularly good decision could just get lucky.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Many visitors to the park get lucky while searching for gems: On average, fortune-seekers find one to two (much smaller) diamonds each day, according to the park.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• The leaders and organizations that go the distance—that don’t just get lucky but continually make their own luck—tend to be folks who are stubborn on vision but flexible on strategy.
  — Shane Snow, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024