unfortunate
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“We heard that … there was only one water station, which was unfortunate because there was just not enough water for everyone,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
But the film merely gestures to its own unfortunate place in history, without ever cementing it as a tragedy.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
On lap 14 Piquet found himself in exactly in that unfortunate position.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
To avoid an unfortunate fate, remember the saying “Turn around, don’t drown,” Redd said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
That evening an unfortunate accident befell an able seaman who had crewed the rigging on the Heart of a Dream.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Now that I’ve seen the show – me, and the few thousand other unfortunates rubbernecking at this terrible accident – I’m here to assure you that this was never about us.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The variety of goals that the Japanese striker scores is astonishing, but all of them have one thing in common - speed of thought that bewilders the unfortunates tasked with the job of marking him.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
As for so many unfortunates before me, it was the big city and all its glittering temptations that brought about my ruin.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020
These unfortunates are forced to live in hiding in the attics and basements of the sympathetic forgetful.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2020
The ferryman was Charon and those he would not admit to his boat were the unfortunates who had not been duly buried.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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