unfortunate
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"The unfortunate thing is, it seems like when you figure out one thing the next year, it's something else."
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The unfortunate reality is that mechanical failures are inevitable when U.S. trains collectively travel some 500 million miles a year.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
“And it’s only an unfortunate circumstance of this huge epidemic that we were able to get samples and look at chains of transmission and really understand what the virus is doing to people.”
From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026
"The unfortunate thing for Forest is that there is no way they can keep him this summer, he has been that good," former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy told Match of the Day.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
“How unfortunate that you should have used such very strong expressions in speaking of Wickham to Mr. Darcy, for now they do appear wholly undeserved.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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