parlay
Example Sentences
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Comedian Daniel Tosh even parlayed a desire to gawk at the web’s inept and unaware into a vicious update of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” that aired on Comedy Central for years.
From Salon
To investigators in the U.K., what’s glaring instead is that his ingratiating friends leaked privileged financial information to the former banker that he might have parlayed into insider-trading gains.
Now he wonders if he should parlay the experience into a side gig: “I’m taking a look at hosting my own reverse-recruiting service,” he said.
When he got a large elephant pin from Thailand — one handed out to athletes from that country — he parlayed that into 35 smaller pins, and he was hooked.
From Los Angeles Times
Businesses often try to parlay their core competencies into new product lines and markets, said Tsay.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
