Synonyms for long shot
long shot

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1. long shotnoun

   Synonyms:
   wide shot, establishing shot

Princeton's WordNet

1. long shotnoun

   a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards

2. long shotnoun

   a contestant that is unlikely to win

Matched Categories

1. • Contestant
   • Gamble

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1. Cook County:

   The very nature of this, it’s always going to be a bit of a long shot given the people that he targeted and the breadth of his killing, when we began this endeavor we were hopeful but not nave.

2. John Inch:

   Are they making progress ? I'm sure they are, but are they out of the woods ? Not by a long shot. They still have a mountain of debt.

3. David Oranchak:

   Zodiac Killer was incredible. It was a big shock, I never really thought we'd find anything because I had grown so used to failure, when I first started, I used to get excited when I would see some words come through -- they were like false positives, phantoms. I had grown used to that. It was a long shot -- we didn't even really know if there was a message.

4. Juan Mendez:

   The U.S. leads the pack by a long, long shot.

5. Marina Pacheco:

   I think it was a bit of a long shot -- it looks like it tried to grab the neck of the woodpecker to break it, i think that it probably doesn't have a big enough jaw to bite through the spine of the woodpecker.