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• Friday the 13th is commonly known as the universal day of bad luck.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
• While many think seeing the number 13 is a sign of bad luck, but not for Taylor Swift fans.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2024
• Some spots just seem to bring bad luck to their tenants.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2023
• In the past, this has normally been chalked up to good/bad luck.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The aim is to rid your home of any bad luck that’s accumulated over the past year.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• But a run of bad luck derailed those dreams, sending him to look for work overseas.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• In some Chinese cultures, wearing red socks is a way to ward off bad luck.
  — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
• For the Jayhawks, it’s been a bit of bad luck mixed with a defensive scheme that dares bad shooters to take shots.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2024
• What the frost, weeds and worms did not kill, bad luck seemed to cover, as when a plane crashed into their potato patch.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
• It was supposed to be my bad luck; Why bring my mother into it?
  — Hazlitt, 11 July 2023
• But why does your bad luck always plunk you in a long interval?
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• Missteps and bad luck will leave FIFA millions short of its goal.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 13 July 2023
• But there are some outliers who get hit far too often to explain it through bad luck.
  — Matt Martell, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• The cocktail’s first bit of bad luck hits it just after it’s invented.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 10 June 2023
• Student lore warns that touching Mrs. Kyle’s tree could lead to bad luck or broken bones.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Louie blames his bad results on bad luck despite all the evidence to the contrary.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• In Greece and some other places, it's considered bad luck to get married on leap day.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Highest pick since Modano A combination of really good teams and bad luck in the lottery kept the Stars away from the top of the draft for a long time.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
• Shares of the stock are down nearly 30% so far this year after its seemingly nonstop streak of bad luck.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• She's just had a lot of bad luck in terms of making not the best match and then running into financial trouble.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 June 2024
• Old way: ‘God, fate, bad luck’ The short answer is that the public’s understanding of tragic events has changed.
  — Thomas D. Beamish, The Conversation, 14 June 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
• Some of us like to live on the edge, and some of us just have bad luck, like getting stuck in horrible traffic on the Van Wyck Expressway on the way to the airport.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• Some people in the horse racing industry are calling the deaths of 12 thoroughbreds at Churchill Downs a string of bad luck.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2023
• One version of the tale said any man who refused a Leap Day proposal would face bad luck and misfortune.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
• One version of the tale said any man who refused a Leap Day proposal would face bad luck and misfortune.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 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
• Tuchel blamed bad luck for the defeat, but Bochum displayed more commitment than his players.
  — Ciarán Fahey, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
• On the Viall Files podcast, the couple shared that their honeymoon kicked off with a bit of bad luck — which only got worse as the plans went underway.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
• Then there’s often an element of bad luck or some other stressor that comes in.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024