bad luck

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“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

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

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

Someone joked about bad luck, but thankfully, this superstition did not come true, and a few months later, Lower won the lead actress in a drama series Emmy for her role in “Severance.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

“Your bad luck talk got them Memphis notions into Versh. That ought to satisfy you.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner