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long shot
noun as in unlikely winner
Example Sentences
Gun regulation, of course, was not the only successful initiative, not by a long shot.
It does, and a little-known, long-shot Democrat is taking him to the wire.
For now, neither Warren nor Clinton are campaigning with long-shot Democrats in the Hawkeye State.
In 2012, Bentivolio filed as a long-shot primary candidate to take on idiosyncratic five-term incumbent Thaddeus McCotter.
McCotter, fresh off a long-shot presidential bid, was expected to cruise to victory.
A mile then was a long shot for the largest guns, and the Yankee cruisers had made a fair start.
You have a lot of soreheads to handle, here and at the division shops, and it isn't all their fault, not by a long shot.
Not that he or anybody else can tell me all about you—not by a long shot; I know boys and young men well enough for that.
Gavegan had grumbled to himself that it was only a thousand to one shot; but luck had been with him, and his long shot had won.
The actual limit is when the star has reached the density of a neutron, and this star hasn't collapsed that far by a long shot.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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