long shot

Example Sentences

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It was always a bit of a long shot, but the market punished the outcome—perhaps unduly.

From Barron's

Still, some analysts had seen the move as something of a long shot.

From The Wall Street Journal

“But I wanted to do something with my life and I was taking steps toward it, although it was a long shot.”

From New York Times

Investors saw the buying of the bonds for as low as 20 cents on the dollar as a kind of lottery ticket — a long shot, but with a big reward if it had worked out.

From New York Times

And so a lot of the venture capital analysis and pricing is: How do you tell the good long shots from the bad long shots?

From Scientific American