gamble

Ordering a predawn ride-share to the airport is always a gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Nearly lost the car on slicks during the formation procedure and ultimately fell all the way to 16th as Alpine's gamble failed to pay off.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The gamble - spending its entire basketball budget on Jordan before he had even competed in the NBA - made Nike what it is today.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

They saw the ARM as a necessary gamble, the couple told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

To them it seemed as if Hubler and his traders didn’t fully understand their own gamble.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Elko knows as well as anyone how this all-or-nothing economy turns high-cost NIL deals into massive gambles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

If those gambles pay off, the clients make it big and the managers pocket 20% of the gains.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Here, Holland’s Telemachus gambles Athena is hiding inside half the people he meets until his father chides, “Don’t look for gods in men, you’ll just be disappointed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Tino Livramento's departure from England's World Cup squad has exposed the gambles and potential weaknesses in head coach Thomas Tuchel's defensive selection.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

They, too, were gambles, rolls of the dice.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

A hot Silicon Valley tech player on the cusp of going public, a payday for all of those who gambled on its once unlikely success that somehow became obvious…and then trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

That means Disney and ABC either chose to disregard its existence, or gambled – correctly, it turns out – that the public wouldn’t bother to look too deeply into what happened.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

The moves were a complete departure from last year, when the Rams wrongly gambled that a young and aggressive pass rush could offset their decision to not make a single upgrade to the secondary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

That same year, Charles Ponzi arrived in America, nearly broke, having gambled away his savings on the voyage from his native Italy.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

He’d gambled on Matthias’ feelings for Nina, but he’d always liked those odds.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Lan said the sentence showed that unlicensed gambling was not a "victimless offence" and warned those who profit from it while ignoring safeguards designed to protect people "can expect to be brought before the courts".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

An outrageous score, with an outrageous slice of luck presuming Carreras was gambling to get anything on the ball, rather than plotting that particular flightpath.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled against prediction-market operator Kalshi on Friday, saying Ohio and Tennessee can apply their gambling laws to its sports-related event contracts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Alabama originally sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance in April 2025, alleging the app was engineered to hook young users "just like a sophisticated gambling machine."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

A strange friendship; grim and gambling Longstreet, formal and pious old Bobby Lee.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara