against all odds
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: despite success being very unlikely
He was able to do it, against all odds.
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Several inspiring movies on Netflix feature humans battling intense conditions, with some surviving against all odds.
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Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
As Marvel and Evans point out, though, there is something timeless about a woman standing before a panel of skeptics and trying, against all odds, to state her case.
—Leah Abrams, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2025
Somehow, against all odds, this is actually happening.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
And on October 22 of 2023, against all odds, Venezuela awoke.
—Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
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Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
As Marvel and Evans point out, though, there is something timeless about a woman standing before a panel of skeptics and trying, against all odds, to state her case.
—Leah Abrams, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2025
Somehow, against all odds, this is actually happening.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
And on October 22 of 2023, against all odds, Venezuela awoke.
—Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Against all odds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/against%20all%20odds. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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