bad luck
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The idea, which took root quickly among users and influencers, is that America is a tough place to survive because a single stroke of bad luck can derail your life.
From BBC
"It's not that he wasn't concentrating. It was just a bit of bad luck."
From Barron's
Never one to be discouraged by his persistent bad luck, Hunt turned his cell into a salon visited by William Hazlitt and Thomas Moore.
Their conditions are not known to be genetically linked - and they say it's just "bad luck" that it has hit their family twice.
From BBC
And I wasn’t allowed to go to the funeral—Daddy thought it was bad luck to have a child so close to the Grim Reaper.
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