gamble

Example Sentences

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With a squad of 26 you can afford to gamble with one player and Stones is worth the gamble.

From BBC

Tudor was a left-field gamble that went wrong from the start.

From BBC

Several years ago, when headquarters was virtually empty thanks to the pandemic-era remote-work policy, he took a gamble parking in a spot at the end of a row dedicated for Stellantis vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

"We took a really big gamble," said Brenner, now a postdoc at Yale.

From Science Daily