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What rotten luck for you that “The Grapes of Wrath” should not only have come out be- fore your book was submitted but should have so swept the country!

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024

Small businesses of long standing, and families who went into debt to launch, say, restaurants or bars or bakeries just before the pandemic, now have blighted futures — the caprice of rotten luck.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

The kind that makes up for so many also-ran seasons — some self-inflicted, some just rotten luck.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

The Lakers’ other problems, the injuries, bad fits, rotten luck and flawed roster — even this offensive groove hasn’t been able to overcome all that.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2022

“It’s not my fault you’re a Spare. Or that you invoked the impossible task. It was rotten luck, but don’t take it out on me!”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega