bad luck
idiom
—used in speech to show sympathy for someone who has failed or has been disappointed
"I didn't get the job." "Bad luck!"
Examples of bad luck in a Sentence
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For example, if I am stopped at the border due to a facial recognition model not being able to match my face to my passport, but the technology works well for my white colleagues, is that due to bias or just bad luck?
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Alice Xiang, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2024
It’s been 44 years of continuous heartbreak for Purdue, who have consistently succumbed to bad luck and shock defeats to fall short of expectations.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
If the debris did come from the ISS, Otero may have just been the victim of astronomically bad luck.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
With bad luck parting ways, an injury-free season and 90+ wins this year, or 100.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
Sudden fog, bad luck and the vessel’s own captain doomed the steamship Milwaukee, experts say.
—Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
Some of the Guantánamo detainees seemed to him to have landed in detention through a mix of bad luck and bad information.
—Tamara Audi, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
In the past, this has normally been chalked up to good/bad luck.
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Bad care and bad luck Sheridan got interested in patient safety and advocacy after a series of errors left her son Cal, now 28 and a TikTok influencer, with lifelong disabilities.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
Alice Xiang, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2024
It’s been 44 years of continuous heartbreak for Purdue, who have consistently succumbed to bad luck and shock defeats to fall short of expectations.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
If the debris did come from the ISS, Otero may have just been the victim of astronomically bad luck.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
With bad luck parting ways, an injury-free season and 90+ wins this year, or 100.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
Sudden fog, bad luck and the vessel’s own captain doomed the steamship Milwaukee, experts say.
—Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
Some of the Guantánamo detainees seemed to him to have landed in detention through a mix of bad luck and bad information.
—Tamara Audi, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
In the past, this has normally been chalked up to good/bad luck.
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Bad care and bad luck Sheridan got interested in patient safety and advocacy after a series of errors left her son Cal, now 28 and a TikTok influencer, with lifelong disabilities.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
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“Bad luck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20luck. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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