gamble

But switching to an untested team is a gamble.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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

Trading yield to chase those clients’ business is certainly a gamble for Main Street banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Mathematically, a 50% chance at $1.3 million carries an expected value of $650,000 — meaning the statistical average payout of the gamble is 10 times greater than the guaranteed amount of $65,000.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

We hoisted the carcass up on the tripod and fixed the hind legs with the gamble stick.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

Traders report minimal foot traffic, and investors appear hesitant, delaying major moves that now look more like gambles than strategic decisions.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

You don’t want to end up like this lost soul, lugging his giant gambles through the hellscape of his own mind:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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

A hot Silicon Valley tech player on the cusp of going public, a payday for all of those who gambled on its once unlikely success that somehow became obvious…and then trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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

What tales of daring and adventure must earlier have been recounted as sailors and navigators, practical men of the world, gambled their lives on the mathematics of a scientist from Alexandria?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

But as the 2026 season rounds into view, Kiffin has LSU convinced that gambling on the country’s most controversial coach will pay off handsomely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

My best guess on the reason for all these bubbles is a mix of easy money, the gambling instinct and hopes for new technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

The company has argued that its activities are not gambling but something closer to market trading, using "event contracts" that let people trade on yes-or-no questions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

"No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple," James said in a news release.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Some businessmen from Mobile had leased the land around it, bought the house, and established what Maycomb thought was a private gambling hell.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee