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Centering strategy on controlling the Strait of Hormuz is an extraordinary gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

WASHINGTON—Dr. Anthony Fauci and his lawyers knew that invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional hearing this week was a gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"To get subbed in, having not done any efforts in this team, or in this track, or in this order, it was always going to be a bit of a gamble."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Funding cuts to Jodrell Bank Observatory are "a gamble on the future of UK science and scientific research", a BBC Sky at Night presenter has said.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

He came to realize that any business in the oil patch was an enormous gamble, even when prices were sky high, and he really wasn’t much of a gambler.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

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

A smaller group used credit default swaps to make what often turned out to be spectacularly disastrous gambles on the relative value of subprime mortgage bonds—buying one subprime mortgage bond while simultaneously selling another.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

From the messy set of ‘Apocalypse Now’ to the secret edits of ‘Star Wars,’ author Paul Fischer pulls back the curtain on how Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg gambled their friendships to build the modern blockbuster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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

“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

She had gambled on the family’s foolishness and self-delusion, and she had won by a length, as they say at the Derby.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

But the fact that NFL owners were horseplayers does not prove the author’s thesis that gambling was essential to the growth of American sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Eight Premier League clubs needed to find a new shirt sponsor this summer because of the gambling ban.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Even so, as the line between investing and gambling grows increasingly blurry, it’s understandable that some consumers might get confused.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Critics say it amounts to gambling, regardless of how the markets are set up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Tire peace dividend changed the region once again, and now it is best known for the great gambling casinos of Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods and for the pharmaceutical researchers of Pfizer.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman