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up·hill bat·tle

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  1. uphill battlenoun

    A challenge with the odds of success stacked strongly against.

Wikidata

  1. Uphill Battle

    Uphill Battle was an American metalcore band with elements of grindcore. The group was based out of Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of uphill battle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of uphill battle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of uphill battle in a Sentence

  1. Vanessa Bain:

    It is not as simple as' Joe Biden is Joe Biden.' It is still going to be an uphill battle, we're in a situation where, excluding legal remedies to Prop 22, we really need to go above its head and go to the federal level.

  2. Eric McCormack:

    We laughed so hard. For the last year, it’s been a confusing time, and I have n’t laughed very much, and to come back together and to laugh out loud and to be surprised by one another and to have new stories to tell and to have another opportunity to do it … it’s a no-brainer. that made me feel like we have a place and we’re not going to be fighting an uphill battle … I thought, why not ?

  3. Elizabeth Warren:

    The news caused a stir. But the question of whether a woman could win the presidency was clearly on voters' minds, and it would come up in debates and town halls, when asked, I always told an upbeat story about why I believed success was within our grasp, but I was under no illusion -- I knew that winning would be an uphill battle.

  4. Sami Steigmann:

    And once you indoctrinate somebody, it’s extremely difficult to bring them back, to see the whole picture, to bring them back to reality, it’s an uphill battle.

  5. Robert Corn-Revere:

    He would have a real uphill battle.

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