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His brave gamble failed and the bronze medallist from the last two Games trailed home in sixth.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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

"If the season goes well, you can earn double your investment. But the climate makes it a huge gamble," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

A classic study published in 1990 by future Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and psychologist Eric Johnson found that people are much more likely to gamble after they’ve just gained a windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Sun Man pulled out his things: four sets of new clothes two pairs of new moccasins two strings of white shell beads Kaup’a’ta smiled when he saw these things “We’ll gamble all night,” he said.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

"During my 17 years in charge there were highs, lows, successes, failures, huge gambles and many mistakes along the way," Watt said.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

So far the stock market likes his gambles on high-tech moonshots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

And then, on the twenty-ninth move, with the position equal, Fischer engaged in one of the most dangerous gambles of his career.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

"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 21-year-old art history major says she had never gambled on anything before, but as an Oscars obsessive she surmised that Timothée Chalamet’s “Marty Supreme” campaign was on shaky ground with traditional voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 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

And she’d gambled that her note was vague enough to seem innocuous if anyone else saw it, but specific enough for Max to understand.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

New York has filed a lawsuit against prediction-market company Kalshi, alleging it runs an illegal gambling operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Put aside the broader question of whether predictions markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are simply dressed-up gambling forums that are already illegal under many states’ anti-gaming laws.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Reductions to tax relief for vape shops and gambling arcades will help to pay for the £100 million a year cost of the measure.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Leigh notes that not every state can take part in Raffall competitions because of different state gambling, lottery and consumer protection laws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Mr. Leroy said, “You hear tell if a man from Canada what call hisself Preacher been gambling with anyone ’round here?”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis