unlucky day

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It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

For other customers, this is not their first tattoo on the unlucky day, Hannah Murray is one of them.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

Cressy's serve-and-volley style created some frustrations for Medvedev, who said late in the fourth set that this was the "most unlucky day I’ve ever had in my life."

From Fox News • Jan. 24, 2022

Cressy’s serve-and-volley style created some frustrations for Medvedev, who said late in the fourth set that this was the “most unlucky day I’ve ever had in my life.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2022

And I guess it was my unlucky day, because inside, the same bald-headed dude who’d been working the last time I’d come down to the Shack was propped behind the counter.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx