variants or snakebitten

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Recent Examples of snakebit After the snakebitten franchise, famous for losing four straight Super Bowls in the 1990s, finally snapped a miserable 17-season playoff drought in 2017, then drafted franchise cornerstone quarterback Josh Allen, the Bills have been back, baby. Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Sep. 2025 The five women sent into the woods for the retreat come back late, drenched, bloody, snakebit and down one member — Alice has disappeared. Marion Winik, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023 To say the fourth-line center was snakebit is underselling it. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022 The Alabama running back tore his ACL against Ole Miss a year ago in what became a snakebit position. Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2022 But what has made this category of sites providing cryptocurrency and other services based on blockchain technology seem so snakebit? Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 12 Aug. 2022 The perpetually snakebit Jayhawks, who have a lengthy history of N.C.A.A. disappointments — including two years ago when they were ranked No. 1 in the country before the pandemic wiped out the tournament — put those regrets behind them. New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022 Dollar Man is one of the most snakebit films in Hollywood history. Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snakebit
Adjective
  • Widespread grief leads to new laws The catastrophic flooding that engulfed parts of Camp Mystic killed at least 136 people across Texas’ fabled Hill Country.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Remove Stains Normally, grease stains can be a nightmare to remove, and one slip of tomato sauce onto your favorite blouse or ink spill onto the white carpet can be catastrophic.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Pittman, 63, was credited with stabilizing the program in the wake of the disastrous 4-20 run in two years under Chad Morris (2018-19), and had a 32-34 record in his first FBS head coaching job.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Inconsistencies in recent years, along with a disastrous 56-13 loss to Notre Dame on Saturday, spelled the end of Pittman's tenure at Arkansas.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And those participating in it dispensed revolutionary justice to members of the ancien régime unlucky enough to be caught.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Some of Walz’s people are unlucky.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mikolas suffered a hard-luck setback in his lone meeting with Milwaukee this season.
    Field Level Media, Reuters, 14 Sep. 2025
  • McConaughey plays hard-luck bus driver Kevin McKay, who's responsible for getting more than 20 kids and their teacher (America Ferrera) home while also worrying about his teenage son Sean.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, Vince’s on-screen demise serves an unfortunate reminder of the realities of real-life firefighting.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Ravens move on to Week 4 with an unfortunate stat, having scored 111 points across three games.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After an 0-2 start, the Chiefs got their first win on Sunday, beating the hapless New York Giants 22-9.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Just ask the Packers, who got dumped by the winless, hapless Browns last weekend.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Vasyanovych plays Roman, a luckless director who’s out of work and trying to shoot his latest film in a country whose dwindling population is still traumatized by the war.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Tom’s doomed desire for Vivien—and for her vanished twenty-first-century world—shows how people in the future may yearn for the past, though the past itself proves neglectful and careless of the future.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Therefore, for years, the impact crater idea seemed doomed.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025

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“Snakebit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snakebit. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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