odds
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“As recession odds fall, inflation odds rise as we get price pressures without as much demand destruction,” said Marc Sumerlin, managing partner at economic-consulting firm Evenflow Macro.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 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
While Nichola says Lou has "defied the odds" and attends a mainstream school, she suffers with mental processing difficulties, mood disorders and behavioural conditions.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The odds were always in favor of a scam.
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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