beat the odds

phrase

: to succeed despite not having a good chance of succeeding
Most new restaurants fail, but this one somehow managed to beat the odds.

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Still, more than a dozen couples have beaten the odds and kept their romances going long after the cameras stopped rolling. — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026 Blue Origin beat the odds with the inaugural flight of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket in 2025, but the company’s engineers had previous experience with numerous launches of the smaller New Shepard suborbital rocket. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 July 2026 Only 50 percent of eagle eggs successfully hatch, so this pair has already beaten the odds. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 July 2026 Boards know it, CEOs know it, the transformation offices funded to beat the odds know it. — Caitlin Hewes, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for beat the odds

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“Beat the odds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat%20the%20odds. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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