How to Use beat the odds in a Sentence

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• These two high schools beat the odds.
  — Ashley Soebroto, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
• These two high schools beat the odds.
  — Ashley Soebroto, Houston Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2026
• Cain will have to beat the odds to reach that level of status.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• Friends who had been paralyzed and beat the odds to walk again.
  — Scott Hamilton, STAT, 4 Mar. 2026
• So, what needs to go right for the Patriots to beat the odds?
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Both beat the odds and paved the way for many more vegan restaurants to come.
  — Mikayla Price, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
• 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
• The Bruins have beaten the odds for the first 57 games.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• Just compare those hurdles with the what banks must accomplish to beat the odds.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• These players may have to develop some camaraderie to beat the odds.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Two winners beat the odds to win the massive Powerball jackpot.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
• Many people, beginning with his mother and twin sister, helped this young man beat the odds.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2024
• But Dole beat the odds, and after years of treatment, had regained much of his movement.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 5 Dec. 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
• The Hodgsons, in some ways, beat the odds to even be in position to adopt Bryan.
  — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 13 July 2020
• In my experience, one of the best ways to beat the odds is to form an advisory board.
  — Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Teodosio, 26, has beaten the odds by even getting to the major leagues at all.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
• Investors in credit-card companies have beat the odds lately.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• Sandra Brown beat the odds to get a college education while in prison.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 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
• Well, my teammates and I beat the odds and silenced the doubters with a 6-0 victory.
  — New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
• Forget about trying to beat the odds and outsmarting everybody else.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• And within their ranks, three unheralded women beat the odds to rise to be presidents.
  — Julie Satow, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
• 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
• Grimm said of watching Edney’s improbable shot beat the odds.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Elon Musk’s private space company seems to beat the odds and constantly proves the naysayers wrong.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
• Kurt's key takeaways Jamie Grohsong's journey back to baseball is not a story about beating the odds.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
• Every year a few of those teams beat the odds by not beating themselves to win 10 or 11 games, and make the playoffs.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Startup founders who are looking to beat the odds can apply for a spot in the Founder Fellowship program.
  — Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025