bad luck
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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
“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
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 • Jan. 19, 2026
“You have to tell me why it’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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