bad luck
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She treats him compassionately, seeing him as a person with an unusually difficult background, and wants us to relate to him as though, given similar bad luck, we could easily be in his position.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Tradition calls for spending the day outdoors to ward off bad luck.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
“Bad years for the S&P 500 are due to very specific factors, not just bad luck or arbitrary changes in investor sentiment,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
No college basketball fan weeps for the Blue Devils’ bad luck, but Duke knows better than most that a great regular season doesn’t guarantee a championship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
“But you said every time he pointed that stick at anything, bad luck was sure to come.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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