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underdog

noun as in unlikely winner in a contest or struggle

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The Rays have long enjoyed a reputation as an innovative underdog.

“To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons,” the report reads.

From Fortune

China, the scrappy underdog, must rise up against an established and technologically superior foe bent on suppressing the weaker power, she writes.

From Fortune

According to our forecast, he still has a very real chance of winning, but he is the underdog.

Regardless of who wins, though, the nominee will start out as an underdog against Cornyn.

Before I was the underdog, slowly growing so people were rooting me on.

So much of the fear the media tries to stoke in me is fear of the oppressed underdog lashing out.

Weiland may look like an underdog across much of the state, but he has a big advantage in one area: Indian Country.

I've always felt like the underdog, so it was a big deal for me.

Jack Hatch is an underdog who has been written off by the pundits.

Oh, that's a chestnut that means merely that the underdog had better stay under if he can't fight his way out.

We Americans have a notable cultural premise in our consideration for the underdog.

Like communism, it needed to imagine a class war and felt that it had a tight vested monopoly of the underdog.

So he arose and stamped out the smouldering embers of the fire he had builded, and whistled for the Underdog.

Then the Underdog licked his chops and Gud sighed, and together they departed from that place, very sorrowful that they had come.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to underdog, such as: dark horse, longshot, bottom dog, and out-of-towner.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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