(superl.) Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
(superl.) Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The lucky ones are studying, the others are like me," he said.
(2) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(3) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
(4) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(5) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(6) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(7) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(8) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(9) Next they are lucky if they can obtain an appointment before the boil bursts.
(10) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(11) Start your exploring at Bearreraig Bay, where, if you are lucky, you may find belemnites, ammonites and bivalves.
(12) ), and yes I have benefited from major label marketing budgets, so I am definitely one of the lucky ones.
(13) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
(14) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
(15) If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.
(16) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(17) I suppose I was lucky compared to many kids in today’s care system.
(18) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
(19) We all know someone who has had a baby, broken an arm or has been seriously ill. Do we consider enough how lucky we are to see our GP for free?
(20) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
Serendipitous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
(2) Furthermore, serendipitly we found that PIP2-PLC activity was increased in liver membranes from obese patients with type II diabetes when compared to obese and lean controls.
(3) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(4) Surprisingly and serendipitously, these studies also revealed genetic heterogeneity of the fibrillin proteins and established linkage between one of these loci and a Marfan-related disorder, congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
(5) Finally, the history of the development of understanding of the disease has been a fascinating mixture of parental concern, serendipitous discovery, and correlation of clinical syndromes and serological evaluations across continents.
(6) None of us would be here, though, if it wasn't for one serendipitous night four years ago in Stockholm.
(7) His charmed team, on salaries of about £350,000, are all getting bonuses: there's Paul Plummer, the strategy director, landing a serendipitous £59,759; Robin "fluky" Gisby, the operations director, and Simon "butter side up" Kirby, the infrastructure projects managing director, who are getting £63,708 each; and, last but not least, group finance director Patrick "the scratchcard wonder" Butcher whose Thank You for Turning Up to Work present this year is £67,658.
(8) New compounds can be discovered by screening, modification of existing compounds, rational drug design, and serendipitous basic research observations.
(9) Serendipitous findings were especially important in finding fetal anomalies.
(10) Included are one case of a "false negative" ABR in a patient with an intracanalicular acoustic neuroma, a case of a "false positive" CT scan in a patient with Meniere's disease, and a case of a patient with normal hearing in whom an acoustic neuroma was discovered serendipitously.
(11) Although the diagnosis can be made on physical examination and on plain radiography, it is important to recognize its appearance on CT since it may constitute a serendipitous finding that should be differentiated from more serious diseases that have a similar appearance.
(12) The patient serendipitously illustrates a multimodality approach to aortic dissection imaging.
(13) The major advantage of electrophysiologic studies over other forms of arrhythmia evaluation, particularly passive monitoring techniques, is the ability to detect the arrhythmia by provocative stimulation techniques, eliminating the need for serendipitous recording of a sporadic event.
(14) A serendipitous finding of tonus changes in the frog skin during nerve stimulation is also described.
(15) Every brain is different – the serendipitous product of evolution and personal experience.
(16) An additional serendipitous finding was a dissociation between two types of tongue movement: licking from a ventrally-located surface survived cortical removal but tongue protrusion did not.
(17) Sheehan's syndrome was not produced with massive hypovolemic shock but failure to obtain true pregnancy has given serendipitous information on the long-term action of norlestrin on the pituitary and its target organs.
(18) Its origin relates to a serendipitous substitution of water in the London laboratory of Sydney Ringer in the 1880s.
(19) We report a completely asymptomatic patient with normal hepatic function whose cyst was discovered serendipitously during sonogram to determine renal size.
(20) A serendipitous finding was the dissociation in time between synthesis of anti-GBM antibodies and development of proteinuria, suggesting a role for cellular effector mechanisms in the induction of proteinuria.