odds

UK /ɒdz/US /ɑːdz/

Meaning

noun

the degree to which something is likely to happen

“The odds are very much in our favour (= we are likely to succeed).”

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“practice most of the time we had to wait for a heavy rainstorm to flood the football field and tying knots is hard who knew yet somehow against all odds we managed”

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Appears in 2 lessons:2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim Cook The Danger of a Single Story

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