But based on the sightings so far, it is already possible to identify the likely losers.

Companies waiting in the wings to offer their shares to the public for the first time were likely losers in yesterday's market decline as well.

In New Jersey, a likely loser made way for a possible winner.

For every winner, there's a loser - or a whole lot of them, more likely.

The battle shaping up within the Democratic Party is thus between likely losers and sure losers.

Yet if the insurgents achieve all-out civil conflict, the likely losers are the Sunnis themselves, since they are a minority.

Now he had only ace-high, a likely loser.

But the piece also observes that if the free market is allowed to determine which New York hospitals close, poor patients are the likely losers.

Larry completely changed the theory of the case turning a likely loser into a case that during the argument appeared to be making unexpected headway.

The likeliest losers now are billboard companies, but Wall Street hasn't figured that out yet.