gamble
Example Sentences
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While Elon Musk asks investors to gamble $80 billion on his grandiose promises about SpaceX, it’s worth taking another look at the grandiose promises he was making just a year ago.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
It would be a gamble but his style of football at Bournemouth is much closer to what we loved under Jurgen Klopp than anything Slot could bring.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
In Obeid, capital of North Kordofan, near-daily drone barrages have imposed a furtive rhythm to residents’ lives, making every trip to the market, school, health clinic or a relative’s home a gamble.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Nearby, dusty sacks of potatoes are piled along the field edges, some loaded onto trucks, others left to sit for weeks, as farmers gamble on prices that rarely improve.
From Barron's • May 15, 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
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