as in dark horse
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Recent Examples of long shot
No stranger to risk calculus, the ski mountaineer knows her senate bid is a long shot.
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Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
Coinbase Ventures has been the most active investor in the crypto space since 2020 — by a long shot.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
But Trump's aides also acknowledge an upset in the Empire State is a long shot in the same way California is Harris country and Texas and Florida are in the GOP camp.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
Even though the bill itself is a legislative long shot, federal agencies under Donald Trump could adopt some of its most extreme provisions without congressional approval, said Daniel Rosenberg, director of federal toxics policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
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Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
Coinbase Ventures has been the most active investor in the crypto space since 2020 — by a long shot.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
But Trump's aides also acknowledge an upset in the Empire State is a long shot in the same way California is Harris country and Texas and Florida are in the GOP camp.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
Even though the bill itself is a legislative long shot, federal agencies under Donald Trump could adopt some of its most extreme provisions without congressional approval, said Daniel Rosenberg, director of federal toxics policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for long shot
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And that’s not even considering potential dark horse movies releasing later this year like Memoir of a Snail, from Australian animator Adam Elliot, whose short film Harvie Krumpet won the Animated Short Oscar in 2003.Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2024
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But the sleeper dark horse contender is Benitez (Carlos Diehz), an archbishop from Kabul who ends up winning the position.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
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For the star, that sense of play and discovery is what drives her creativity forward.Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
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Later, the American playwright Arthur Miller agreed to stage his plays in South Africa, but only for desegregated audiences.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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This definition also said that while people can justifiably be forced to do certain things, most obviously to refrain from infringing the liberty of others, they cannot be coerced to serve the good of other members of society.Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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The city around him still bore the wounds of war, and the jamming together of wreckage and reconstruction had its enduring effect, as Auerbach recalled: There was a curious feeling of liberty about because everybody who was living there had escaped death in some way.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Long shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20shot. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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