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The slumping Steelers enter the playoffs on a 4-game losing streak, and are the biggest underdog in the wild card round.
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Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
That’s not a compelling pitch to Wall Street when you are already viewed as the underdog.
—Alex Heath, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2025
Beginning as an homage to Eighties action movies and Frank Miller’s seminal work on Daredevil, the TMNT embodied the underdog spirit of super heroics, while blending many of the themes that made characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men so popular with young readers.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
Washington failed to cover the 17-point spread as underdogs and struggled on both sides of the ball.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
That’s not a compelling pitch to Wall Street when you are already viewed as the underdog.
—Alex Heath, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2025
Beginning as an homage to Eighties action movies and Frank Miller’s seminal work on Daredevil, the TMNT embodied the underdog spirit of super heroics, while blending many of the themes that made characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men so popular with young readers.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
Washington failed to cover the 17-point spread as underdogs and struggled on both sides of the ball.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Underdog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underdog. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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