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The 2025 Super Bowl shocked football fans last year when the underdog Philadelphia Eagles came up winners by a score of 40-22, stopping the Kansas City Chiefs from claiming a third consecutive NFL championship.
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CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
An underdog with a bite Faulkner was once a quarterback standing 5-foot-nothing with a 10-cent arm but a million-dollar head with a brain like a sponge.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
Chinese tech underdog DeepSeek rocked the market with its low-cost R1 model, wiping billions off the stock market, with $600 billion vanishing from Nvidia’s market value alone.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
On the flip side, longtime San Diegans know all too well that special teams failures harmed several Chargers teams in the playoffs — beginning with the franchise’s very first postseason game of the post-merger era, when a short field-goal try was blocked by the underdog Houston Oilers.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
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CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
An underdog with a bite Faulkner was once a quarterback standing 5-foot-nothing with a 10-cent arm but a million-dollar head with a brain like a sponge.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
Chinese tech underdog DeepSeek rocked the market with its low-cost R1 model, wiping billions off the stock market, with $600 billion vanishing from Nvidia’s market value alone.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
On the flip side, longtime San Diegans know all too well that special teams failures harmed several Chargers teams in the playoffs — beginning with the franchise’s very first postseason game of the post-merger era, when a short field-goal try was blocked by the underdog Houston Oilers.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underdog
loser
Noun
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Some software companies have emerged as potential AI losers, while hardware companies (think semiconductor chipmakers) continue to be AI winners.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The 19th through 32nd picks in each round were decided by playoff results — teams eliminated in the wild-card round were placed into slots 19-24, divisional-round losers into picks 25-28, and so on.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Underdog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underdog. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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