bad luck

Example Sentences

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If you have the bad luck of experiencing a market downturn at the outset, your slope of growth will forever be lower.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Tradition calls for spending the day outdoors to ward off bad luck.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Meta and Google both vowed to appeal verdicts that were handed down by civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., brushing off the losses as a bit of bad luck.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

"If they do, they finish the ride then go to the back of their car and spit three times to dispel the bad luck," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

It was bad luck to even speak about the Gule Wamkulu.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba