Betting everything on a longshot is a game for losers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Health Insurers’ Duplicitous Campaign Confirmed: Industry Covertly Gave Millions To Fund Anti-Reform Ads] Reference

Looks like another longshot is going to finish first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton holds big leads in West Virginia and Kentucky] Reference

It depends on your timeline: over the long haul, the longshot is a sure thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worldchanging: Bright Green] Reference

There currently are a few other initiative measures out there that fall into what could generously be called the longshot category.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

His longshot was his seventh of the year and fourth in the last six games, while Friday was also his third three-hit game of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appalachian State Headline News] Reference

I believe that we're whats thought of as a 'longshot' target seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refecting on Crewe and Nantwich.] Reference

Dancing With the Stars, but realizes she's a "longshot" to win.    From Wordnik.com.  [E! Online (US) - Top Stories]

Agreed, the D-backs are by far the best "longshot" bet on the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference

Iverson says he's a 'longshot' to play season opener The Canadian Press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS] Reference

Lee is a "longshot" to be traded and Martinez "more of a longshot," one source says.    From Wordnik.com.  [DRaysBay: FanPosts] Reference

Well, it seemed like such a longshot at that point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008] Reference

So if you bet the Kentucky Derby, you bet the longshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 23, 2007] Reference

Scientists say they're excited by this admitted longshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2007] Reference

They used that sort of as a longshot to treat the amoeba.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2002] Reference

TOOBIN: You know, it seems like sort of a longshot to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2002] Reference

Relative longshot candidates are using Twitter to fundraise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet is TV. Twitter is the Internet.] Reference

His poorly funded, longshot run for president ended in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Tancredo WILL Run As Third Party Candidate For Governor] Reference

BLITZER: Once the front-runner, Howard Dean now is a longshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2004] Reference

Does America want their future in the hands of a longshot gambler?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama To Hillary: You Should Have Been Right About Iraq "On Day One"] Reference

WHITFIELD: So are you in agreement that this is likely a longshot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2006] Reference

Smith guided a 50-to-1 longshot named Giacomo to victory at the Derby.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 10, 2005] Reference

That was the 50-to-1 longshot, Giacomo, who won the derby on Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 10, 2005] Reference

GREEN: It sure seems like a longshot, especially with all the tension.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2008] Reference

Ehrlich's longshot challenger, Brian Murphy, was backed by Sarah Palin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fix live blog: Interesting races are on the Republican side] Reference

Yeah — when I came here those were not my plans — not by a longshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Richard Bowman, July 8, 1998. Interview K-0513. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I realized that the longshot in the 7th was a horse named Beautiful Kayla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morning Promise] Reference

It is a longshot, but I think I've just found a way out for Andrew Hopkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

Kucinich received little support during his second longshot presidential bid.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2008] Reference

He's a longshot, but more moments like that and he starts rising up the ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

ROBERTSON: It might be a longshot, but it's exactly the sort of break they need.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference

Emerging from that crucible, Hart in 1974 made what seemed a longshot stab for a U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Gary Hart's New Memoir Shows the Continuity in Contemporary History] Reference

SMITH: Certainly they're going to say that because he was a longshot and he pulled it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 10, 2005] Reference

BLITZER: Tonight, there's a new longshot Democratic candidate in the race for the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006] Reference