unfortunate
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But when that is the case, renting isn’t always an unfortunate necessity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
She also reportedly requested the case documents to be sealed to allow the family to “privately heal and move forward from this unfortunate incident.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Kris is also a bit of a nervous wreck, though the character is scripted with an unfortunate mix of pedestrian mumbliness and tin-eared therapeutic explication that Ms. Einbinder struggles to transcend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Individuals, unstable moments and unfortunate episodes come and go.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I knew he meant unfortunate for the community.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“Bounteous Los Angeles saw to it yesterday that the unfortunates within her gates had reason to be thankful for at least one plate of hot, steaming turkey fit for a king,” a 1935 story said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
The bus stopped for the last few unfortunates, and Westerband cajoled them through the door, even as they tried to remonstrate with him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
If the name maketh the man, then surely Zambia's notoriously grim prisons are full of unfortunates who've been saddled with names like Chidano, Mapenzi and Chananga - that's "hatred", "trouble" and "wrongdoer" respectively?
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2017
These unfortunates as well as my group were all saved by the Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue, or ICE-SAR.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2014
The ferryman was Charon and those he would not admit to his boat were the unfortunates who had not been duly buried.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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