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Recent Examples of hard-luck Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, a hard-luck guy who has a job that kills him over and over again, getting printed out again after every death. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025 While Michigan State is overwhelmingly likely to clinch the conference regular season title (the Spartans host Penn State this weekend), a sweep by either Ohio State or Minnesota this weekend would wrap up second place, and the right to host hard-luck Notre Dame in round one. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2025 While the Chiefs have been consistently strong, with some remarkable good fortune this season and continued horseshoe following them, the Bills have suffered some severe hard-luck losses including to the Chiefs in the recent playoff years. Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 And after a hard-luck start to his career, Bateman getting in the end zone has become the ultimate good omen for the Ravens, who will face the Buffalo Bills Sunday night at Highmark Stadium in the AFC divisional round. Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 Ole Miss finished a hard-luck 5-6 with its final five losses coming by one score. Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025 The redshirt freshman stayed away from a stomach bug that plagued the rest of the position group just weeks before the season, which proved to be an ominous sign of things to come for perhaps the most hard-luck unit in the College Football Playoff. Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024 The aftermath: Fister, a hard-luck 12-30 for Seattle, went 32-20 for the Tigers with a 2.98 postseason ERA. Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 26 July 2024 Ticketed, booted, towed — there are a million hard-luck parking enforcement stories in the naked city. Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-luck
Adjective
  • Here at home, extreme weather exacerbated by climate change is having many unfortunate impacts on our lives, from farmers losing crops to devastating floods, brush fires, and high heat days.
    Michael Leone, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Viet and Nam try to make sense of the tragic deaths of unfortunate people like Nam’s father, while their film namesake also attempts to do similar for people like those who have perished when attempting to find a new life.
    Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite that success, Willard was unhappy with the program’s financial commitments.
    Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The extra time will presumably be used to fix whatever about the season executives are unhappy with.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That puts them above Chelsea, Manchester United, West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the hapless bottom three, who have failed to mount a similar level of improvement despite two of them changing managers as Wolves did.
    Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Amid the twinkling grandeur of the cosmos, two hapless astronauts are fumbling crucial tasks: docking into a space station; adjusting the angle of satellite dishes; keeping their plants alive.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Hard-luck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-luck. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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