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put at odds
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Even as early as far back as the Civil War, Asians and Black people had been put at odds with each other by the white majority.
Humidity caused the gun to malfunction twice, a stroke of luck scientists later put at odds of one in 125,000.
Cap and Iron Man are put at odds because of opposing moral stances, which is also true of Batman and Superman, but Batman and Superman don’t tussle through the first two acts of the movie because, well, it has to happen at the end, because the writers said so.
The impulse to do what felt natural, to do what has worked previously, gets put at odds with the impulse to use conventional hitting wisdom.
The dispute over Goldman's role put at odds two of the major mergers-and-acquisition advisers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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