bad luck

Example Sentences

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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

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 • Feb. 14, 2026

And over and over again: they were spirits, it was bad luck to talk to them, they came from the fairy world.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman