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bad luck
noun as in rotten break
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Gabriel follows various leads and makes connections but eventually has bad luck: “Grade-two bad luck,” he clarifies to a colleague.
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I think if bad luck comes out of the blue, good luck must as well.
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If you have the bad luck to retire into a bear market, you could end up running out of money.
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Both games could have been turned into victories except for some bad luck.
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England wickets nevertheless fell regularly through a combination of good bowling, bad luck and poor judgment.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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