gamble
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How do advisers handle clients who love to gamble?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Once in Sin City, Aiyedatiwa skipped the casinos—the trip itself was already a gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
That more cautious approach to risk can be seen beyond investing, with women more likely to choose certainty when faced with a financial gamble.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now she is embarking on perhaps the biggest gamble of them all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Sabbatini: “Question or statement? And at what temperature? Care to gamble five points on the midterm?”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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On the day Arsenal appointed Mikel Arteta, back in 2019, the London club was taking one of its boldest gambles in more than a century of history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
Having just raised $122 billion in new funds at a valuation of $852 billion, OpenAI can probably afford a few speculative gambles.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Others are susceptible to competition against people with insider knowledge, like gambles on whether Lady Gaga will appear during the Super Bowl halftime show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
They, too, were gambles, rolls of the dice.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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At trial, Goldstein gambled on himself by taking the stand to testify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Like many legacy automakers it gambled on motorists making a quick move to EVs - and lost as the world shifted."
From BBC ● May 14, 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
Others, who had gambled on a girl, shouted in triumph.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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People looking for information about community councils in the Scottish Borders have instead been directed to online gambling portals.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Flaherty that prediction-market contracts are “swaps” under the Commodity Exchange Act, and that therefore federal law pre-empts state gambling statutes from reaching these markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Studies of younger investors show they believe gambling is a reasonable path to wealth creation, not all that different from investing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Studies showing younger investors believe gambling is a reasonable path to wealth creation, and not all that different from investing, “concerns me deeply,” Liz Ann Sonders said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
There were no views of the moon or the peninsula of powdery sand from the gambling rooms, only the lights of the chandeliers enticing them to stay.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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