bad luck
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Meta and Google both vowed to appeal verdicts that were handed down by civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., brushing off the losses as a bit of bad luck.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
“Bad years for the S&P 500 are due to very specific factors, not just bad luck or arbitrary changes in investor sentiment,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
And yet Muñoz does not blame anyone for her death; instead, he puts it down to bad luck.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
Some of it he chalks up to bad luck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
“But you said every time he pointed that stick at anything, bad luck was sure to come.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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