odds
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In fact, it’s often better when made from the odds and ends already lingering around your kitchen.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
Now, only three weeks removed from the birth of a baby girl, bookmakers gave him odds of just 14-1.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Sunderland defied all the odds and predictions with an outstanding season back in the Premier League under the calm, understated but very shrewd guidance of Regis le Bris.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Ozempic showed odds of nearly 19, while generic semaglutide products showed odds of 21.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2026
“Are we? Could we be? But how? That is to say, what are the odds? And why was Edward Ashton so keen on my taking up genealogy as a hobby, anyway?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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