gamble

Four years later, the gamble paid off in a big way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Seeing the condition of the recently burned lands... we didn't dare to gamble and assume he'll survive."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He added: "It's going to have to create a whole new market where one didn't exist before, so it's a big, big gamble for the company."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I don’t gamble with the lives of people I care for.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Perhaps freed by having lifted the trophy, we have seen the Spaniard take more gambles in personnel and tactics.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But if the gambles fail, the clients lose their shirts, but the managers do not have to cover 20% of the losses.

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

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

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

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

"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

“At this point, everyone I know knows someone whose husband has gambled away all their money,” political influencer Emily Amick, 41, whose book club feverishly discussed “Strangers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

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

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Adding to the unease among traders were comments from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, who likened the recent investor AI buying frenzy to gambling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

“People are actually trying to wedge gambling into every corner of the financial market right now,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

The Prison Radio Association's series about problem gambling, Hold or Fold, won the overall top prize for best podcast, and the award for best factual podcast.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Francie and Neeley had each been given a strip but Francie had been tempted by some shrewd boys into gambling her tickets in a marble game.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith