bad luck
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbadandluck
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bad
adjective
uk/bæd/us/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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luck
noun[U]
uk/lʌk/us/lʌk/
the force that causes things, especially good things, to happen to you by chance and not as a result of your own efforts ...
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(Definition ofbadandluckfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbad luck
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Regarding court rulings, we assume that judges decide according to posterior beliefs concerning the likelihood of bad intentions or respectivelybadluck.
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For example, the unintentional breaking of a mirror may have an effect on the supernatural agent responsible for causing natural agentsbadluck. 13.
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Thus, there was a component of 'badluck' - a ' natural calamity ' factor.
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Sometimes it is merelybadluckthat intrudes.
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It's just hisbadluckthat they, collectively, have more importance than he does.
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Their crime is discovered by a piece of hideousbadluck.
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Unlike in a real market economy, the model has no risk of ending up destitute throughbadluck, bad decisions or both.
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Seventy years before, there perhaps would have been no way of understanding her child's existence except as a cursed presence which would bringbadluck.
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If it is good luck not to sufferbadluck, moral luck infects all human moral records.
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First, it is contrary to our experience, for it does not seem like those with the mostbadluckreceive the most grace.
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Whenever the singer begins to lament hisbadluckor sing in falsetto, or mumble and cry to himself, the reverb comes on.
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This nonsensical observation appears to be based on thebadluckthat the author had in choosing companions to share his adventures.
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The positivists whose argument we examined had thebadluckof picking the wrong game and the wrong model of convention.
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Good policy can overcomebadluck, and good luck can sustain a bad policy.
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Falls were often attributed to chance orbadluckand therefore not regarded as preventable.
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Furthermore, it is often hard to tell whetherbadluckor bad intentions led to an adverse outcome.
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Interestingly, our analysis suggests that it is the interaction ofbadluckand bad policy that is ultimately to blame.
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Thebadluckand good luck of different possible circumstances would cancel out one another.
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Perhaps they suffer from some sort of illness or other form ofbadluck.
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Then with special rules, exceptions, extra opportunities presented by the dice and forfeits for errors orbadluck, a winner is determined.
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