jinx

Is it a jinx, like being put on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

I helped make the ads; it was too late for a sea change, but late enough to break the midterm jinx.

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Once was unlucky, twice looked like an evil jinx, a curse, an astrological conspiracy.

Only a jinx of the most malevolent type could have prompted his hurried exit from a train to dodge an imaginary "bull."

The other night I took a walk, and called on Jinx, across the block.

The home of Jinx was full of boys and girls and forty kinds of noise.

“Worst jinx in the world to see a cross-eyed man,” I replied.

One adopted the plan of "expecting disappointment" as a means of cheating the "jinx."