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"having bad luck" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone has been having a streak of misfortune or misfortune that is not necessarily their own fault. For example, "John has been having bad luck lately; he just got laid off from his job."
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He was having bad luck.
"We were just having bad luck on that horse.
If a gambler is having bad luck in one, all he has to do is stroll down the Boardwalk and try his hand next door.
At some point, the talk turned from Abdur-Rahim's having bad luck to him being the bad luck that brought his teams down, a charge that has never been leveled against the hard-playing Lee.
By Sara Picus and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, October 19 , 1935P. 17 One of our readers had been having bad luck with her coffee and finally went out and bought a coffee pot called Silex.
Though he seemed to be having bad luck on the water that day, by the end of the tournament he had turned in an eight-pound bass and a nine-pound bass, though investigators did not see him catch either one.
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You had bad luck?
It has had bad luck.
In part, Barshay had bad luck.
I have bad luck with dogs.
He always had bad luck with injuries.
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