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One not likely to succeed
Answer for the clue "One not likely to succeed ", 8 letters:
longshot
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Longshot is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , most commonly in association with the X-Men . Created by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Art Adams , he first appeared in Longshot #1 (September 1985), the first ...
Usage examples of longshot.
But they were a longshot entry in the galactic sweepstakes anyway, for their sludgy metabolism was simply too slow to compete with warmer, quicker races.
Odds on the Hollywood Commies subverting the country with their cornball propaganda turkeys, rallies and picket line highjinks: thirty trillion to one against, a longshot from Mars.
A politician who all of a sudden out of nowhere comes on TV as this total longshot candidate and says that Washington is paralyzed, that everybody there's been bought off, and that the only way to really ``return government to the people'' the way all the other candidates claim they want to do is to outlaw huge, unreported political contributions from corporations and lobbies and PACs .
The enemy's forward guns had been taking longshots at the melee in front of them.
He said, “Good boy, good fellow,” putting off Doc Layman’s theories as long longshots then and there.