misfortunes
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Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
"It was so obvious that, but for the misfortunes of war, a fine, thriving, healthy little platypus would have created history in being number one of its kind to take up residence in England."
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
Still, Ms. Bofill rarely expressed regret and tried to be lighthearted in talking about her misfortunes in interviews.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Now she lay in wait to regale Mother with her own misfortunes at the hands of unappreciative men.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
