Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

American Boxer

Janet McTeer

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

English Actress

Jack Osbourne

I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

English Celebrity

Emma Tennant

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.

British Novelist

Greg Mottola

The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.

American Director

Francois Nars

Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.

French Businessman

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Elon Musk

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

South African Businessman

Virginia Woolf

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

British Author

Timothy Spall

English Actor

Use 'odd' to describe behaviors or situations that deviate from the norm and may raise curiosity or concern.

Unexpected Behavior

The word 'odd' can imply a mild, uncomfortable feeling that something is not quite right.

Subtle Discomfort

Use 'odd' for events that happen irregularly and are not part of a usual pattern or schedule.

Not Routine

Events referred to as 'odd' are infrequent and can happen without a predictable pattern.

Sporadic Occurrences

'Odd' can refer to items that are meant to be in pairs or sets but are not because one is missing or different.

Mismatched Items

When something is 'odd', it may stand out because it doesn't fit with its group or lacks its counterpart.

Not Part of Set

Use 'odd' for things that are left over after others have been used or divided up.

Extra Leftovers

'Odd' can be used when a measurement or amount is not exact, but close to a round number.

Not Precisely Calculated

In mathematics, 'odd' refers specifically to a number that is not divisible by two, with no remainder.

Mathematical Oddness

 Trying to calculate the odds of a match directly is challenging because there are many ways you could get a birthday match in a group. Instead, it's easier to calculate the odds that everyone's birthday is different. How does that help? Either there's a birthday match in the group, or there isn't,

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 If you experience math anxiety, it may not help to just know that math anxiety exists. Or perhaps it's reassuring to put a name to the problem. Regardless, if you take a look around yourself, the odds are good that you'll see someone experiencing the same thing as you.

Why do people get so...

 In this respect, pregnancy is awe-inspiring, but that's only half the story. The other half reveals that pregnancy places a mother and her child at odds. As for all living creatures, the human body evolved to promote the spread of its genes.

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 radioed me and said there was a whale off the harbor. So I came up to the harbor and sure enough, there was a whale and he dove and when he dove, I looked at his funny tail fluke because there were 2 notches in and I thought, that's odd.

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 alive numbers are conservative odds are you know someone with bipolar disorder who's undiagnosed odds are you know someone with bipolar disorder and who is afraid of seeking treatment because of the stigma the taboo I've shared my

Understanding bipolar...

 Her characters frequently lead inner lives that are deeply at odds with their external existence. To help make sense of these disparities, the next time you read Woolf, here are some aspects of her life and work to consider.

Why should you read...

 plants encourage them to do so by adding a tasty capsule to their seeds that may seem odd but these ants don't eat all the seeds they store in fact seeds are more likely to germinate below ground than above

Sir David Attenborough...

 But the more of the control problem that we solve in advance, the better the odds that the transition to the machine intelligence era will go well. This to me looks like a thing that is well worth doing

What happens when our...

 At special forest schools, they recover from emotional trauma and continue to develop essential life skills. Against all odds, these orphans demonstrate incredible resilience and readiness to learn.

How smart are...

 scientists have found a lost world of odd species living in waters near Antarctica including swarms of a ghost light crab that seemed to move only

Odd

Not the same as usual, different in a way that is strange.

Often appears as...

Not happening often, occasional.

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Not paired or matched.

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Part of an amount or number that is remaining or left over.

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Not exactly round numbers.

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Referring to numbers that cannot be exactly divided by 2.

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