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Some have been quick to bash the app's less than cheery name - saying that signing up for it might bring ill fortune.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

Okrepkie, 45, a commercial real estate agent, was displaced through ill fortune.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

A few nice breaks, along with some good clutch play, are not enough to reverse a decades-long sense of ill fortune and black clouds.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2018

It is the turbulent depiction of Pericles’ long, arduous battle with ill fortune, and the miraculous turns that restore his family to him, that give the play its appeal.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2016

The silent sisters prepared men for the grave, and it was ill fortune to look on the face of death.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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