It has also jinxed other businesses by reserving all domains of four letters or fewer for locals.

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Baffert skipped the post position draw for Saturday's race, saying he always gets jinxed when he attends.

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Another failed deal might just convince investors that Telekom's American ambitions are jinxed, and send its sky-high shares into a nosedive.

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Before today, the latest iPhone was looking a little jinxed.

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But just four years earlier, a U.S. Navy airship seemingly jinxed from the start and later celebrated in song crashed only about 40 miles away, claiming more than twice as many lives.

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Scott Woolley Slaughtered Making the cover of our Forbes 400 issue in 1997 may have jinxed Wendell Murphy, then number 148 on our list and owner of the nation's biggest hog producer.

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You know, the phenomenon where teams that appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated are jinxed in the upcoming season, or anybody featured on the cover of the Madden NFL video game is doomed to injury or obscurity.

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