as in unfortunate
having, prone to, or marked by bad luck
a hard-luck ball club that never could get the breaks it needed
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Recent Examples of hard-luck
The aftermath: Fister, a hard-luck 12-30 for Seattle, went 32-20 for the Tigers with a 2.98 postseason ERA.
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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
His latest album, 2023’s Twenty on High, is a revelatory collection of hard-luck stories and working-class resilience.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
The rise from an impoverished, dysfunctional upbringing in hard-luck Appalachia to Yale Law School and the U.S. Senate is truly the stuff of political myth-making.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
The latest delay was a familiar setback for the hard-luck Starliner, which has suffered a steady stream of frustrating complications since an initial unpiloted test flight in 2019 was derailed by software problems and communications glitches.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 21 May 2024
Head-to-head with Donald Trump Now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended his hard-luck campaign just before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Haley will be going head-to-head with her former boss on Tuesday in the Granite State.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
Horan was the hard-luck shooter of the game, denied multiple times by Musovic and clanking another header off the crossbar.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
And Rafael Devers has had kind of a hard-luck year, even as he’s been productive.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
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
His latest album, 2023’s Twenty on High, is a revelatory collection of hard-luck stories and working-class resilience.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
The rise from an impoverished, dysfunctional upbringing in hard-luck Appalachia to Yale Law School and the U.S. Senate is truly the stuff of political myth-making.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
The latest delay was a familiar setback for the hard-luck Starliner, which has suffered a steady stream of frustrating complications since an initial unpiloted test flight in 2019 was derailed by software problems and communications glitches.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 21 May 2024
Head-to-head with Donald Trump Now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended his hard-luck campaign just before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Haley will be going head-to-head with her former boss on Tuesday in the Granite State.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
Horan was the hard-luck shooter of the game, denied multiple times by Musovic and clanking another header off the crossbar.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
And Rafael Devers has had kind of a hard-luck year, even as he’s been productive.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-luck
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Absentees from injury are unfortunate, suspensions less so.Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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The unfortunate trend is certainly concerning for a Lions team that is hoping to make a deep playoff run.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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Some artists and publishers are unhappy with the way their content is being scraped freely by companies like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models — AI models trained on huge quantities of data to generate humanlike responses.Ryan Browne, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Cronin — who had to cancel some summer shows this year due to unspecified health issues — further acknowledges that there’s acrimony between he and Hall, and he’s been unhappy with some of the social media discourse blaming him for the end of the REO Speedwagon name.Gary Graff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
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Your upcoming home game against the hapless Wizards?Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
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With Kirk Cousins's struggles at quarterback made plain to see on Monday Night Football in an Atlanta win over the hapless Raiders, Falcons coach Raheem Morris announced on Tuesday night that first-round pick Michael Penix Jr. is the new starting quarterback for his team moving forward.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Hard-luck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-luck. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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