gamble
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How do advisers handle clients who love to gamble?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He's a rookie and a gamble - but an intriguing one.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Once in Sin City, Aiyedatiwa skipped the casinos—the trip itself was already a gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Centering strategy on controlling the Strait of Hormuz is an extraordinary gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
The implicit part of these gambles is that, in a way similar to the rise of search and smartphones, the winner takes all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 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
Industry observers noted during that time that their planned lineup for the year was dotted with films believed to be high-stakes gambles, including “One Battle After Another” and Zach Cregger’s horror flick “Weapons.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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
Tammy Wales, a travel agent from Ringgold, Ga., said she gambled on a mystery trip for research purposes: “I’m always looking for the best deals.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
That same year, Charles Ponzi arrived in America, nearly broke, having gambled away his savings on the voyage from his native Italy.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
But he was decent and responsible, never gambled or lost his temper, and always paid his bills on time.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
“Nothing about these contracts is an investment. Nothing about them is a rational hedge for a financial position. They are pure and simple gambling vehicles running through a U.S. government-regulated exchange,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Prediction markets are facing scrutiny from state and federal regulators, including continuing litigation in more than a dozen states over whether they should be regulated as gambling entities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Eight Premier League clubs needed to find a new shirt sponsor this summer because of the gambling ban.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
It was such bad karma, the company sold it to some other hotel chain, and built a new hotel—a massive green Oz-like gambling cathedral.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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