unlucky
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Characters forced to make do either lash out, like raging overreactors on Lee Sung Jin’s petty, brutal “Beef,” or fall into holding patterns, like the unlucky in love leads of Issa Rae’s dramedy “Insecure.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
So the best you can do with such stocks is to avoid them, or sell them immediately if you’re unlucky enough to be holding them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
He was unlucky not to have Duckett lbw in the first over, then was not denied when he pinned the England opener on the shin.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
But let’s remind ourselves: It’s better to be lucky than good, and that Betts has been unlucky, which is bad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
In this clinic, Rojas had already cared for an interminable procession of unlucky souls.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
"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
But there have been even unluckier players than Trout.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
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
"Now, was there ever an unluckier mortal on earth than I?"
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
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
And as for choosing the supposedly unluckiest day of the year?
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
Maybe it hit the floor and rolled into another crack—a crack in the living room floor—which would make Genie the unluckiest kid in the world.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
