Authority and Odds

Authority

Authority noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

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Odds and authority are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Odds" instead a noun "Authority".

Odds noun - A measure of how often an event will occur instead of another.

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Authority and odds are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authority" instead a noun "Odds".

good	good authority	good odds
high	high authority	high odds
equal	equal authority	equal odds
complete	complete authority	complete odds
Other adjectives: considerable, single, strong, actual, great, little, personal, highest, last, greatest, higher.

That's ignoring his short-fuse temper, which puts him at odds with certain authority figures.

Source: Video Game / Jak 3: Wastelander
Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, Palpatine is one of these, completely at odds with his role as the Big Bad of the source material.

Source: Webcomic / Darths & Droids
While not a direct punishment to the ruler, this can have negative consequences: lower moral authority means religious conversion of provinces and characters is harder, and with particularly with the Abrahamic faiths increases the odds of heresies appearing.

Source: Video Game / Crusader Kings

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