out of luck
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If you hadn’t already purchased a travel-insurance policy before this week’s events, you are likely out of luck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
If no Roth option is available, workers making over $150,000 in 2025 wanting to make catch-up contributions will be out of luck.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
People who were 80 or older on Sept. 1, 2013, were out of luck -- they would never become eligible for the vaccine.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025
But smaller firms without global presences will be out of luck.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
“You, Emma, who have so few opportunities of dancing, you are really out of luck; you are very much out of luck!”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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