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Recent Examples of star-crossed Think how many times during Rodgers’ Green Bay tenure that the quarterback played well, only to have the Packers’ star-crossed special teams betray him. Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025 Lesbian star-crossed lovers à la Bonnie and Clyde? Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025 The duo play star-crossed BFFs in the epic romance, which Goldstein co-wrote with William Bridges. Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 So ends one of the most controversial and star-crossed investigations in history. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025 Flashback: Boeing's Starliner was star-crossed even before the inaugural crewed mission earlier this year. Avery Lotz, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024 Few Olympic teams in any sport have had to rebound more times or overcome adversity more often than the U.S. women’s water polo team, the most successful in the world in the pool and the most star-crossed outside it. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024 The attraction between the star-crossed, cross-cultural couple is electric and propulsive, lasting for years with unmitigated intensity. Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024 That’s a career best for the U.S. country artist, and third top 10 appearance following 2018’s Golden Hour (No. 6) and 2021’s star-crossed (No. 10). Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for star-crossed
Adjective
  • This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This latest ‘oopsie’ also fits an unfortunate pattern.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • My research team works hard to keep the email addresses up to date, but executives keep changing their addresses to avoid having to deal with unhappy customers.
    Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But few seemed to leave unhappy.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 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
  • The effect was disastrous, my hair crimped weirdly, with sections shooting out in different directions like the discordant notes of an orchestra tuning up.
    Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The mid-quarter update offered a glimmer of hope after Six Flags’ disastrous second quarter earnings report in August.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Now the Patriots will play what appears to be a hapless Dolphins crew.
    Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Forty years after Spinal Tap, history’s most hapless band turns it up to 11 one last time.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The offensive issues contributed to rookie Yankees starter Will Warren (6-5) suffering a hard-luck loss.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025

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“Star-crossed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/star-crossed. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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