winnings
Example Sentences
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First of all, Nvidia’s general outperformance had become so extreme that investors became willing to take winnings by selling the stock in some recent periods.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
One punter had placed a £100,000 bet on the course on I Am Maximus at odds of 8/1 to claim £900,000 in winnings.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Do I think you literally owe her half of your March Madness winnings?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
They include a teenage boy with a piggy bank full of videogame winnings, a young woman in need of a heart transplant, a cash-poor film producer and a mute priest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
They packed their clothes and a few boatbuilding tools, used their winnings from their races to book passage in steerage to Halifax, aboard the steamship Tunisian, and set sail from Liverpool.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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