odds
Example Sentences
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In some future year, will these, against all odds, be somebody’s good old days?
In a statement the college said Ashby and Holland's behaviour had been "completely at odds with the core values and high standards upheld by everyone at Plumpton College".
From BBC
Confronting its biggest threat in decades, the regime in Tehran is trying to boost its odds of survival if diplomatic talks fall through.
After a three-year love affair with anything related to artificial intelligence, U.S. investors are flocking to the factory owners, fast-food restaurants and commodity companies that have seemingly strong odds of surviving the technological revolution intact.
"Because it's so much at odds with long-term evidence, long-term trends."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
