odds
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There is no guarantee, but there are things you can do to improve the odds that they’ll be hitting the links with you.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
None of that meant a thing to Clinton’s election odds either, although her loss did nothing to dim the womanist fury embedded in Jackson’s song.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
“If you stick your neck out, whether it’s by climbing mountains or speaking up for something you believe in, your odds of winning are at least fifty-fifty,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
A major collapse in oil prices, the largest since 2020, is bearing weight on Treasury bond yields and raising the odds of a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut later in the year.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Her long nose sat at odds with her round face.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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