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unfortunate time



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“So, yeah, it was an unfortunate time for a bad swing, but thankfully it didn’t hurt me.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

"It's beyond the normal… and in the environment where countries are already struggling. It's a really unfortunate time," Andrew Jones, chief of the vaccine centre at UNICEF's supply division, said about the rotavirus shortage.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2022

And what has this unfortunate time taught us that could be useful going forward?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2020

The disruption to world trade comes at an unfortunate time for Europe.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018

Joe and the others took my advice about not attempting the escape, but he decided the note should be saved as a historical document, and it later turned up at a very unfortunate time.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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