unfancied
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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For most of Sunday afternoon the most pertinent question appeared to be if anyone could catch the unfancied Yealimi Noh.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The completely unfancied Shaidorov kept his nerve as his rivals tumbled, moving up from fifth to take his country's first figure skating gold, with Japan's Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato completing the podium.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
"I'm careful not to make excuses but it comes from a lot of different variables," Shiffrin told reporters after the race won by the unfancied second-ranked Austrian pair of Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
The 31-year-old will once again be the unfancied fighter when he takes on Opetaia, who is 25-0.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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