underdogs

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a person or group of people with less power, money, etc. than the rest of society:

As a politician, her sympathy was always for the underdog in society.

in a competition, the person or team considered to be the weakest and the least likely to win

the weaker of two competitors, or anyone not expected to win a competition:

He began the race for governor as the underdog.