How to Use beat the odds in a Sentence

beat the odds

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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 | Mrodak@al.com, al, 13 July 2020
  • Then again, James Cameron has beat the odds in China before.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2022
  • 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 | Rgriesbach@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Alberty ended up not having the amputation surgery -- and beat the odds.
    — Brenda Cain, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Forget about trying to beat the odds and outsmarting everybody else.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • To see a man hip-hop culture once revered, who beat the odds by becoming one of the world’s few Black billionaires, ruin his legacy by putting his hands on a woman is a collective disappointment that will reverberate for generations.
    — Jasmine Elise, Essence, 24 May 2024

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