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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hawkins had an ill-starred career in football, with one injury after another.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After Ryan the agony continued, but from a totally different perspective, during the ill-starred Ron Waldron years.
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As far as I know, none of my ill-starred relations has ever died by the gun.
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The first part deals with the ill-starred romance between Natasha and Andrei, and the second plunges into the conflict.
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Then he responded brilliantly late on to parry a point-blank shot from the ill-starred Simpson.