He just lucked into having Theo Epstein for a boss.
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Kaine has lucked into a reputation that's ridiculous but fundamentally innocuous.
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Freedom from want wasn't reserved for those who lucked into prosperous families or lucked into a genetic predisposition toward the type of symbolic manipulation and verbal precocity that happen to be highly prized in our modern economy.
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I lucked into a great therapist years ago, but she moved away.
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The Dragons are also aware they have lucked into a winning hand.
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And they lucked into a high-end refrigerator at a cut rate.
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Either way, it's clear that the "Friends" gang lucked into a great real estate deal.
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He had lucked into a group that responded to, or at least withstood, his bullying.
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But both men are creatures of potent want and pure compulsion who lucked into forgiving audiences.
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He was thrilled to have lucked into this virtuoso coder, and soon made him a cofounder.
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And in this case, we lucked into something that was very "GIFable" as you might say.
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You somehow lucked into your role, and your colleagues are clearly more qualified than you are.
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CEO Peter Daou isn't just a wayward founder who lucked into a Hillary endorsement of his product.
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I was looking for a small town in the mountains and kind of lucked into Jackson Hole.
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Finally, they lucked into a rental a mere block and a half from Hobie's old day care.
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I mean, I feel like I lucked into it, but everyone there has to speak a couple languages.
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To underestimate Paul as a dope who lucked into stardom by looks and charm is a grave, grave mistake.
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More than that, I have lucked into listening some of the most verbose and expansive podcasts on the planet.
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Sorry, friend, we lucked into some eclipse content thanks to Steve Addazio, head football coach of the Boston College Eagles.
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He's soft around the edges, like some lazy fat cat who lucked into the throne by accident rather than regicide.
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You'd think you somehow lucked into enough money to buy one of Chip and Joanna Gaines' iconic Magnolia homes, right?
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He wasn't some shooter who lucked into a hot streak; both his shooting percentage and his accuracy from three have remained consistent.
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That leaves the multibillion-dollar question: can a company that lucked into its lead stay ahead of an ever-growing crowd of competitors?
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Recently I've lucked into a precisely shaped Côte-Rôtie from Domaine Jasmin and a Saumur from Romain Guiberteau whose self-assurance I envied.
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You will burn through 10 eggs (6 whole, plus four yolks) — this might be a good one if you've lucked into a stash from Costco.
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Doug Jones, who lucked into his seat after a special election and is the most at-risk Democrat in November, said he has "tentatively" decided.
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My partner and I eventually lucked into a Manhattan Avenue apartment that neighbored one of the now-shuttered Polish restaurants drawn in Tenements, Towers & Trash.
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Riaz used his TED connections to visit Tokyo and give a talk about his love for animation, then lucked into a rare tour of Studio Ghibli.
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Bisping is seen as a man who lucked into the middleweight title, but the truth is that he has been grinding away in this sport for years.
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Likewise, Fillmore, the last president from the soon-to-die Whig party, is seen as a lovable dope: A well-meaning failure who lucked into the presidency.
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That couch turned out to be the beginning of a long season of awkward living arrangements, before Mr. Boscacci eventually lucked into what he considers the perfect apartment.
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Their work areas are far apart, and he has lucked into the best room in the house as his office: double height and mostly glass with a fireplace.
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I lucked into acting with this beautiful, beyond talented movie star on a daily basis, and it's been one of the most loving, inspiring working relationships I've ever had.
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A yearningly ambitious provincial, from Languedoc, Bazille lucked into the big-bang commencement of Parisian modernism, signalled by the stunning novelty of Édouard Manet's "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe," in 1863.
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Syed was accustomed to cutting deals with odd characters who'd lucked into their silicon and were eager for money; he never asked many questions about the provenance of their goods.
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Then, through a friend, he lucked into a better-paying Wall Street job where, because he was bilingual, he was desperately needed to service Latin America's emerging foreign exchange market.
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How she'd lucked into an easy man who seemed to always know what she needed, who always checked to make sure they were on the same page, she wasn't sure.
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Already 21999-240, the Braves were on their way to a far better season; it turned out Nixon had lucked into the leadoff spot with an up-and-coming franchise.
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Unfortunately for KD and the Warriors, they're a bad team that lucked into this Finals win and will likely never ever return for a chance at a celebration redemption. Bummer.
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I laugh, because to my mind, I arrived at it in just about the most cowardly way: I lucked into childlessness (if having a defective uterus can be considered luck).
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In speech after speech Zuckerberg now warns lawmakers that getting him to stringently police his network will only reward him with more power than he has somehow already lucked into.
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He also was a relative newcomer to journalism when he lucked into being aboard a Navy ship that received a top secret transmission about the Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway.
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The essential criticisms are that he's a crappy boxing coach who lucked into Rousey and rode her coattails, that he hypes up his fighters while neglecting aspects of training and cornering that actually matter.
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He really scrambled to kind of ... well, and also, I think he felt a degree of shame in that he was always considered to be this guy who had lucked into his fortune. Yeah.
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There was one hacker, however, who lucked into a mother lode of 360 dev kits and whose eagerness to profit off his good fortune would help Pokora ascend to the top of the Xbox scene.
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"I lucked into acting with this beautiful, beyond talented movie star on a daily basis, and it's been one of the most loving, inspiring working relationships I've ever had," he wrote, including the hashtag #Jopper.
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The Raptors may have lucked into this success initially, but once they found it, it would have made little sense to back away from it because it was not the plan or because James existed.
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The chef's youthful years were marked by poverty, he said, so he has created a take on chee cheong fun that he might have ordered if he had lucked into a windfall as a child.
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After starting out as a printer's assistant, he lucked into an emergency assignment covering a lurid local murder, and he did such a bang-up job that his story was republished in papers across the country.
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Cassius Clay had been a heavyweight who lucked into all of the gifts a fighter could be blessed with and never met a man with the right skills and gameplan to show up his technical shortcomings.
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Things are most definitely happening for The Lemon Twigs, but this isn't something they suddenly lucked into: Michael and Brian have been working towards a career in music in one way or another their whole lives.
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Following six friends in their 22s living in New York City, "Friends" became a cultural touchstone of the 215s — all while leaving millions of viewers wondering how exactly the characters lucked into such an amazing Manhattan apartment.
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In the New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells floats the possibility that Trump essentially lucked into his electorate success and has rewritten the rules of the campaign almost by accident: There's probably no organizing genius to the Trump campaign.
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It doesn't have the wealth of original video available to Netflix's "Wild Wild Country" (instead, it often relies on re-creations); it doesn't offer the breathtaking twists that the makers of "The Jinx" or "The Staircase" lucked into.
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The incandescent smile that disappeared from Zion Williamson's face last month the moment the New Orleans Pelicans lucked into the No. 1 draft pick was back on Wednesday as Williamson claimed that he never actually had a preferred team.
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To be sure, you could have learned that one David Mattingly was the artist behind those covers if you ever stumbled upon this excellent Vice interview from 2015, where he describes the software, his technique, and how he lucked into the job.
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I stood there, a returned Peace Corps volunteer with a tech writing job I lucked into and needed to get me back on my financial feet, remembering a sunny Tuesday afternoon like this when I followed my host grandmother across a creek and through a field of ostriches.
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Richardson got his start in the early 1990s, when he lucked into a job as the host of "Football Italia," the first show to air Italian domestic soccer in Britain, after Paul Gascoigne, the mercurial English midfielder who had agreed to be the presenter, stopped turning up for work.
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I'm a renter in the Bay Area, one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S. We have lucked into an exception-to-the-norm situation, getting to live in a small house with the landlord on-site in a small unit adjacent to our dwelling.
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How he fits: The Dolphins lucked into Laremy Tunsil as a long-term solution at left tackle last season because of some social media shenanigans, and this year they rolled the dice by taking a player who is still learning his position but could eventually be a great pass rusher.
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In their place is a stink bucket of disappointment, a sad and unnecessary PG-13 orphan fight that director Zack Snyder believes is an homage to DC Comics' most iconic heroes but is more along the lines of a home invasion perpetrated on comic book culture — save for one absolutely glorious moment that Snyder and friends may have accidentally lucked into.
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But if you live in a vibrant, growing area that's creating jobs, where people want to move and live, and you are fighting that growth by advocating for policies that constrain it — because you love your view and your on-street parking, because of the "character of the neighborhood," because you don't want "those people" coming to your neighborhood on transit, because you've lucked into suburban idyll with all the urban amenities, because your home value rises the more housing supply constricts, because you've been led to believe that capping housing supply counteracts rather than accelerates gentrification — then no, sorry, you are not a climate hawk.
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Its ensemble cast includes Helen Moses, 91, who falls in love with her neighbor, Howie, at a Bronx nursing home; Fred Jones, 88, who struggles to reach his third-floor walk-up apartment after gangrene claimed parts of two toes; Ping Wong, 90, originally from Hong Kong, who lucked into subsidized housing and fills her days with mah-jongg; Ruth Willig, 91, who must readjust after an unwanted move from one assisted-living facility to another; Jonas Mekas, 92, a Lithuanian-born filmmaker who dedicates his life to art; and the sad-eyed but dignified Sorensen, who has longed to die ever since Walter, his partner of 60 years, passed away in 2009.
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Hunt and her family were active in the Methodist church. she recalled many years later: > I lucked into the most fortuitous, warm, constructive kind of family context > imaginable. My father was a top scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa. My mother was a > voice coach and accompanist of singers in the concert and opera fields.
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Riley questions how they could have lucked into such a major heist, but Cutter dismisses his concerns. Cutter later makes an attempt on Riley's life and tries to escape with the loot, which results in a high-speed chase through London. Cutter dies when his car crashes, and Riley takes the money. Meanwhile, Dixon convinces Sands to go straight, and Sands confronts Parker.
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Critics were divided over the pairing of Ciara and Timberlake (pictured). Dan Gennoe of Yahoo! Music said that with the track, Ciara "lucked into the sexiest thing to happen to pop since Timberlake's own FutureSex/LoveSounds," calling the song one of the "biggest anthems of the year." Gennoe went on to call the song the "highlight" and "saving grace" of Fantasy Ride.
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The audition process for Benmergui's replacement involved potential new hosts interviewing Pevere about the film Heathers; producer Anton Leo was unimpressed by all ten contenders, and was discouraged until the studio technician who had been sitting in the booth turned to him and asked if he'd considered Pevere himself as the new host."The So-Ready for Prime Time Player". The Globe and Mail, October 27, 1989. Under Pevere, the program evolved into a more serious-minded newsmagazine on all aspects of pop culture,"Movie critic lucked into Prime Time gig".
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Sinclair started as a 16-year-old copy boy at the Wellington Evening Post and then The Dominion for a year. Having left New Zealand in 1961, he lucked into his first job in Australia as the sole employee (and editor) of the south Queensland tourist-targeted rag, the Surfers Paradise Guide, and, by 1962, he was working as a reporter at Brisbane's The Telegraph. He spent a year crime reporting at Sydney's The Daily Telegraph from 1964, another year back at The Dominion, and then joined the sensationalist New Zealand Truth. He finally left his second stint at The Daily Telegraph to join The Star, another sensationalist tabloid, in Hong Kong, as news editor, in 1968.
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Assassin was a heavy metal band that was formed in San Diego during the summer of 1983 by guitarists Thom Beebe and Vinnie Cavarra. They sought out noted drummer Leroy Vega and, in recruiting him, also lucked into a vocalist, his friend Pete Papps, both of whom had previously played in the band Vengeance with future Dio guitarist Craig Goldy. After a brief stint with bassist Neil Foote, the band settled into its classic early line-up with the addition of Chicago native John Osmon on bass, another former Vengeance member. Thom brought in a handful of songs from his previous band, Child, which had briefly featured Jake E. Lee on second guitar, and Vinnie had a few songs as well.
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In the magazine Fretboard JournalFretboard Journal number 12, Winter 2008, Fred Carter, Jr. recounts: > I had a baby Martin, which is a 000-18, and when we started the record in > New York with Roy Halee, the engineer, and Paul [Simon] was playin' his > Martin—I think it's a D-18 and he was tuned regular—he didn't have the song > totally written lyrically, but he had most of the melody. And so all I was > hearin' was bits and pieces while he was doin' his fingerpicking… I think he > was fingerpicking in an open C. I tried two or three things and then picked > up the baby Martin, which was about a third above his guitar, soundwise. And > I turned down the first string to a D, and tuned up the bass string to a G, > which made it an open-G tuning, except for the fifth string, which was > standard. Did some counter fingerpicking with him, just did a little > backward roll, and lucked into a lick.
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