odds
Example Sentences
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PepsiCo is defying the odds in a brutal environment, but its path isn’t easy to replicate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
This bullish phenomenon is at odds with how investors often respond to uncertainty—and that’s intriguing.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
Winning the Premier League against the odds in 2015-16 was one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
“I’ll put the odds of a deal in the next 10 days at 90%,” says Brian McCarthy, managing principal of Macrolens, a boutique investment-research firm in Massachusetts.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
The odds of the Mona Lisa getting painted—the already long odds—grow slimmer still.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing odds
"Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 5
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