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One punter had placed a £100,000 bet on the course on I Am Maximus at odds of 8/1 to claim £900,000 in winnings.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
While the common rhetoric often makes it seem like energy and environmental goals are at odds, examples among leading energy and transportation companies have shown otherwise.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
That optimism puts Fed officials somewhat at odds with a string of gloomy economic signals.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
But by the time Holbein returned to England, in late 1531 or early 1532, More was increasingly at odds with the king.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
As in the chapters on coincidence and pseudoscience, we see that the desire to filter and emphasize information is at odds with the desire to obtain a random sample.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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