odds
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“I’ll put the odds of a deal in the next 10 days at 90%,” says Brian McCarthy, managing principal of Macrolens, a boutique investment-research firm in Massachusetts.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
But you also shouldn’t count out LeBron; the kid from Akron has beaten the odds before.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
“Doing that will increase the odds that LPs can capture Power Law winners that slip through the grasp of earlier-stage managers,” the firm wrote in a December note.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
"I'd imagine the odds were against us from the start but we were able to make some good things happen."
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“I am not certain. But it is quite likely you are a backup. I would put the odds at approximately seventy-two point five percent.”
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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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