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Definition
an unfortunate state or event
- He didn't triumph over adversity.Chapter 5 (31% in)
- Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.Chapter 5 (31% in)
- He was an elegant man who dressed in a homburg and Brooks Brothers * The best analysis of how adversity turned into opportunity for Jewish lawyers has been done by the legal scholar Eli Wald.Chapter 5 (33% in)
There are no more uses of "adversity" in Outliers.
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