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• There is also wisdom to be learned in the songs and traditions of past movements, when people banded together — for civil rights, for women’s suffrage — and found ways to keep hope alive against all odds.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• And still, against all odds, Ser-Od’s finish seems far away.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• These were innocents who had fought against all odds for a chance to live.
  — Deborah Cadbury, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2022
• Each ends as a trope: one a man who triumphs against all odds, the other a martyr.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
• Take Hilton’s 10-minute TikTok that went viral against all odds.
  — Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• True underdogs that really got it out the mud and went against all odds.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2022
• Meanwhile, against all odds, people are still being pulled alive from the wreckage of their homes.
  — Laura Saravia, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
• And Thompson, who took home the title, said her crowning moment came against all odds.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2022
• But these highlights reassure us that the art form will continue to find, against all odds, ways to thrive.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Later in his youth, he was struck by polio and once again overcame the affliction against all odds.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Is Mellencamp a salt-of-the-earth guy who remained in Indiana and found success against all odds?
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• Wilson steals the show, and Hanks is in top form as a man desperately trying to stay alive against all odds.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
• Later, Hunter learned more about how his parents and four siblings survived, against all odds.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
• But her closest friend, Trina (played by the rapper Doechii in her debut role), encourages Gia to keep the child against all odds.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
• What really makes Merkel stand out from her peers is her ability to hold on to power against all odds.
  — Constanze Stelzenmüller, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
• There’s never a bad time to appreciate the celebrities who (against all odds) seem to be having a little fun in their lives.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2022
• After a shocking — and brutal — death at his brother Ronnie’s hands in episode 5 of the season, fans learned that, against all odds, Unique (Joey Bada$$) is alive.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• Standing tall, against all odds, Lieberman has been a true Profile in Courage for all Americans.
  — Peter Buonome, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2024
• From one standpoint, a Dolphins victory would come against all odds.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• But Clarett, against all odds, has rebuilt his life, his mindset and his relationship with Ohio State.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2022
• Somehow, against all odds, this beautiful hidden gem in the hills of southern Spain still falls under the radar and hasn’t been taken over by tourists.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2023
• The planets Mars and Pluto also inform your desire to succeed against all odds.
  — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 13 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, Danny, Sarah, and Emily are gloating about their plan working out against all odds.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 3 May 2023
• After girls’ soccer team on a flight across Canada’s Ontario wilderness fails and crashes, the girls must fight to survive against all odds.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
• America has long fancied itself to be a David — the plucky underdog that triumphs against all odds.
  — Steve Larkin, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022
• Although one of the two test pilots was killed, the other remarkably survived, parachuting to safety against all odds.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
• Starting in South Korea in the early 1900s, the story has been told through the eyes of a remarkable matriarch, Sunja, who triumphs against all odds.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 22 July 2024
• And yet the steely resolve of the Ukrainian people has unified the nation and instilled a determination, against all odds, to fight for freedom.
  — Daniel Twining, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Even in the wake of the most brutal attack in Israel’s history, its people, against all odds, remain optimistic.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Opportunity is limited, but against all odds, these two men found it and are now trying to share it with others.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024