underdog
Example Sentences
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I love their small edge in virtually every area of the game, all of which will lead to a big upset by a 4.5-point underdog.
From Los Angeles Times
Coming into the game as considerable underdogs, the head coach had tried to reframe the changing narrative as his side now being the hunter rather than hunted.
From BBC
It fit tongue-and-groove with Philadelphia’s image of itself: the perpetual underdog.
Can he meet the challenge as Brady did as an underdog against the Greatest Show Rams all those years ago?
But the new-look Patriots who play the Seattle Seahawks at Sunday's Super Bowl LX have a very different tag -- the underdogs.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
