Odds in a sentence as a noun

Follow this advice, and the odds of freezing to death go way down!

The odds were always overwhelmingly that you would.

The reality is that the odds of me living long enough to see my children grow are quite slim.

His drive to start a company is incredible, and he's done it despite the odds.

Very few litigants can do that and, indeed, Newegg is to be commended for fighting this all the way against tough odds.

To see a parent express joy and love in the face of such long and terrible odds is a truly unique experience.

This may be a worthwhile debate but it will never see the light of day in a courtroom as a class action unless it defies all odds of how such cases work.

My guess would be driving around with a relatively short-range jammer actually increases the odds of being hit by a distracted driver.

Presumably he knew the odds that "they" would track him down anyway, and by going public he has a chance to leverage popular public sentiment as a shield of sorts.

OOP is still the dominant programming methodology, and for good reasons, but encapsulation stands at odds with proper database design.

Relatedly, your discount rate is probably too low, and you probably overestimate your odds of a liquidity event and the upside potential.

Odds definitions

noun

the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring

noun

the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one"