bad luck
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If you have the bad luck of experiencing a market downturn at the outset, your slope of growth will forever be lower.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
The superstition goes that the leader must burn off bad luck, leaving only good fortune for the mission.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Tradition calls for spending the day outdoors to ward off bad luck.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Meta and Google both vowed to appeal verdicts that were handed down by civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., brushing off the losses as a bit of bad luck.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
It was bad luck, bad fortune, freakish to the point of being too scary to contemplate.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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