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This approach revealed that the odds of such a process happening naturally are astonishingly low.

He hopes the preservationists succeed, despite the odds.

Hillquit ran a strong campaign under the unique conditions of that world-historical year, by all accounts, winning almost 150,000 votes across a fractious range of communities who were generally understood to be at odds.

"We call the difference in temperature 'decoupling,' because it seems at odds with the warming of ambient temperatures," says Shaw.

Responding to odds that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket - even behind Hollywood actor Dwayne the Rock Johnson - she said she never listened to polls.