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Discover LudwigThe phrase "various odds" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a range of different possibilities or outcomes that are uncertain or less likely to happen. Example: The political situation was unstable, and there were various odds that the election would be postponed.
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Ms. Christian took decluttering seriously, moving books, furniture and various odds and ends from packed closets into storage.
When no potzers or semi-potzers were around, the regulars played each other for money, offering various odds to make up for any disparities in ability.
In the wrong hands, the piece can fit the composer's joking description of it as "various odds and ends thrown together".
Physical education, some bits of science and various odds and ends will merge into "understanding physical health and well-being", and so on.
In a column last month I offered my "morning line" on the potential Democratic presidential candidates (Tom Daschle, 4 to 1; Joe Biden, 5 to 1; Al Gore, 2 to 1; and seven others at various odds).
Ms. Blackall understood at once that what she described as these "small glimpses into strangers' lives, packed with mystery, pathos, beauty and humor" were a perfect fit for her artistic obsessions, which include collecting discarded shopping lists and the various odds and ends that people leave behind between the pages of books.
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In the case of Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, the answer is a 74,000-square-foot house (apart from the art, the yacht, the helicopter and various other odds and ends).
Saturday morning is the time to visit this rambling "antiques" market of bric-a-brac and various useless odds and ends.
You find yourself in a recreation of the room from the film's opening, sitting in the same chair as Mareuil's character, around which are scattered various significant odds and ends from the scene: most notably the cigarette and lighter as famously used by Buñuel on the balcony, the offending razor blade, and the strop on which it is sharpened.
A systematic power analysis was performed for the 1044 cases and 724 controls available for study, adopting various allelic odds ratio between 1 and 2, a nominal significance level of 0.05, and minor allele frequencies of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5 for a potential susceptibility mutation, respectively [ 27].
M i c r o o r g a n i s m c o l o n i z e d t e s t C V C s A l l c o l o n i z e d t e s t C V C s The rate of CVC colonization for each microorganism was analyzed separately and various pooled odds ratios (ORs) were calculated by both the Gart fixed-effects models (FEMs) and the DerSimonian-Laird random-effects models (REMs).
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