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
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
"If they do, they finish the ride then go to the back of their car and spit three times to dispel the bad luck," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Never one to be discouraged by his persistent bad luck, Hunt turned his cell into a salon visited by William Hazlitt and Thomas Moore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Some of the town kids, not knowing it was bad luck to catch the carp, would scoop them out of the low waters and toss the fish upon the sand bars.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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