misfortunes
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Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
Is it too simplistic to point to the disallowed goal as evidence of Celtic's misfortunes, or were they just second best against the side seventh in Portugal's top flight?
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025
The train station’s history reflects the city’s fortunes during its heyday as the world’s car capital and later misfortunes as thousands of auto workers and other residents fled Detroit for life in the suburbs.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
