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• So, what needs to go right for the Patriots to beat the odds?
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Cain will have to beat the odds to reach that level of status.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• Yes, the Mavericks trailed the Phoenix Suns 0-2 and won four of the next five to advance and beat the odds.
  — Dallas News, 21 May 2022
• The Hodgsons, in some ways, beat the odds to even be in position to adopt Bryan.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2020
• Then again, James Cameron has beat the odds in China before.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2022
• Well, my teammates and I beat the odds and silenced the doubters with a 6-0 victory.
  — New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
• Of those who do beat the odds and win, about 99% opt to take the lump sum payment, says Matheson.
  — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2022
• Just compare those hurdles with the what banks must accomplish to beat the odds.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• Read more: How Cordova helps children beat the odds in math.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• But Dole beat the odds, and after years of treatment, had regained much of his movement.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
• With the help of a lifesaving drug, Gunnar has managed to beat the odds and survive the disease.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• But in what is today southern Africa, some large predators managed to beat the odds for a time.
  — Jeanne Timmons, New York Times, 22 May 2023
• But public policy should not be based on a golden boy who beat the odds.
  — Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024
• In my experience, one of the best ways to beat the odds is to form an advisory board.
  — Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Indeed, the best-case scenario for everyone on the left is that the Democrats beat the odds and achieve a majority.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2020
• Sandra Brown beat the odds to get a college education while in prison.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
• These players may have to develop some camaraderie to beat the odds.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Many people, beginning with his mother and twin sister, helped this young man beat the odds.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2024
• Once again, no one beat the odds and won the $700 million Powerball jackpot in Saturday night's drawing.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
• Davis-Clem beat the odds, living more than 35 year with HIV -- a virus that kills most people within eight to 10 years if left untreated.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
• By then, the moderates who kicked off the process had been relegated to the sidelines, left to wait and see if the stimulus effort could beat the odds.
  — Nicholas Fandos, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Women who beat the odds in Texas included the late great Barbara Jordan, from Houston.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• Nine months after being shot by a white man for ringing the wrong doorbell, Ralph Yarl continues to beat the odds and has earned a spot in the Missouri all-state band.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 11 Jan. 2024
• Julia’s main goal is to live life to the fullest as her wife, Martina Navratilova, beat the odds after battling two cancers.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• Seh-lynn Chai is the latest in a series of searing memoirs by North Koreans who beat the odds and reached safety in free countries.
  — Melanie Kirkpatrick, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
• In typical fashion, Seeling beat the odds and returned for the season opener March 21.
  — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
• Now, if children don’t beat the odds and secure a green card before their 18th birthday, they are transitioned out of the foster care system.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 6 July 2023
• And within their ranks, three unheralded women beat the odds to rise to be presidents.
  — Julie Satow, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
• Grimm said of watching Edney’s improbable shot beat the odds.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Investors in credit-card companies have beat the odds lately.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 3 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024