unlucky
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Most of her trips—other than one unlucky boat ride—have gone smoothly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Aside from an unlucky draw, there is a short list of reasons a prisoner ends up here.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Being impacted by such a rare, distant projectile really underscores how unlucky the dinosaurs were," says Dr. Claeys.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Before Friday, Son recorded nine assists but no goals over 13 unlucky matches this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
By what unlucky chance was he their chosen savior when all he could do was let them down?
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
"We couldn't have been unluckier than that. This is not what we were expecting," said Harmanpreet.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
"Is there anyone unluckier than me?" said Xiaohongshu user "sanmingliu", who posted photos of her shipping container room.
From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2022
Meanwhile, there are tens of thousands of unluckier Afghans who did not manage to board a flight to the United States last summer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
We saw that, though we were born in far unluckier places, we have all the same talents as our Western-born peers.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2019
And if it happened to be his head that Timothy Turtle seized—well, then he was unluckier still!
From The Tale of Bobby Bobolink Tuck-me-In Tales by Arthur Scott Bailey
The first thing that had to go right was an unbelievable stroke of luck on the unluckiest night of Tatum’s life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
They have been called “the unluckiest generation” in U.S. history.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
He added: “She was the unluckiest person I’d ever heard of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
A couple who got married in a cemetery on what is supposedly the unluckiest day of the year have said the day was "pretty perfect".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
But unluckiest of all was the shooter who completely missed a walker: he faced both a one-point deduction and a lifetime of ribbing.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
