by all odds
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When all else fails, remember that you are a magical star child human being who by all odds was never meant to be born.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2020
In 1914, when Pius died, Merry del Val seemed by all odds the likeliest candidate for St. Peter's throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The National Aquarium, the most advanced and by all odds the most attractive of its kind in the world, caps a $1.5 billion revitalization program on which Baltimore embarked 25 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
In most respects, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller stands as the Cosimo of the dynasty, by all odds the most lavish and most outspoken proselytizer, the most passionately concerned collector and patron in the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although we are by all odds the most social of all social animals—more interdependent, more attached to each other, more inseparable in our behavior than bees—we do not often feel our conjoined intelligence.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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