poor timing
Example Sentences
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Over any longer period, the opportunity cost of holding it is likely to exceed that of poor timing in the stock market.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Automated birthday emails are a constant of modern life, right up there with death, taxes, and computer updates with poor timing.
From The Verge • Jul. 29, 2022
Lauzon’s here-today, gone-tomorrow vanishing act was just the latest instance of poor timing to befall an expansion team that has struggled with first impressions.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2022
When Mellon was testing the water, “nobody could wrap their head around what I was doing,” she said, adding that poor timing led her brand to have to file for bankruptcy protection.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2019
Indeed, Adams’s string of bad luck or poor timing, call it what you will, persisted to the end.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
