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But Trimble’s board can find itself at odds over whether to focus on AI’s ability to cut costs or contribute to revenue growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The odds are not lost on Nixon, who campaigned last week in Monticello, on the Georgia-Florida border, about 45 minutes outside of Tallahassee.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
The Bank of England carefully watches services inflation and core inflation, and this ups the odds significantly for a rise in interest rates next month.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Folger is one of thousands of hopefuls aiming to beat the odds as Hollywood implodes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Are we? Could we be? But how? That is to say, what are the odds? And why was Edward Ashton so keen on my taking up genealogy as a hobby, anyway?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing odds
"Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 5
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