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
In the author’s words, “early childbearing, backbreaking labor, and bad luck were family traditions.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
But it was Russell's bad luck to join Mercedes just as they made a hash of the new regulations that were introduced in 2022.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
“Miss Lumley. Your snooping or mail delivering or whatever it was seems to have been a bit of bad luck, for both of us. Now my little secret is out.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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