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The gamble - spending its entire basketball budget on Jordan before he had even competed in the NBA - made Nike what it is today.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

They saw the ARM as a necessary gamble, the couple told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The CEO was making a gamble, but he and Mr. Johnson realized that to rebuild the company’s profile Apple needed to reach the regular people who shopped at places like Target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

JSerra head coach Hardy Nickerson opted to go for it on fourth down, and Cloutier rewarded his gamble, scoring on an 11-yard run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Bill Harvey's gamble was about to pay off.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

But if the gambles fail, the clients lose their shirts, but the managers do not have to cover 20% of the losses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 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

When he speaks off the cuff it’s a gamble—he doesn’t know what he’s going to say either!—and gambles are exciting and diverting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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

At trial, Goldstein gambled on himself by taking the stand to testify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Bonilla had excelled with the Mets earlier in his career, and they gambled that he could recapture the production of his youth by taking on the last two years and $11.65 million of his contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 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

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

Ames gambled that as chief of counterintelligence for the Soviet division of the CIA, approaching the KGB couldn't be simpler.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Both converged last month on Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who quit Anthropic warning that AI companies were "gambling with our lives."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

An outrageous score, with an outrageous slice of luck presuming Carreras was gambling to get anything on the ball, rather than plotting that particular flightpath.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled against prediction-market operator Kalshi on Friday, saying Ohio and Tennessee can apply their gambling laws to its sports-related event contracts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Manufacturers are also gambling that they can fend off competition from used and refurbished devices, a market that is also growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In his drive to bring Riddle to the table, Howard was gambling with his own horse’s chances.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand