lottery

There’s a limit of 85,000 H-1B visas issued in a fiscal year, and they are selected through a lottery system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Such is the demand for them that some public apartments are allocated by lottery.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

I have also seen the effect of replacing state test scores, grades and attendance as admission rubrics for middle school and high school with lottery numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

While some teenagers may mark their 18th birthdays by buying a lottery ticket or getting a first tattoo, Deon Radcliff Jr. had different priorities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

His greatest weakness is instant lottery tickets, what he calls “los scratch,” and he sheepishly confesses that he can squander as much as $75 a week on them.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The lotteries take no financial risk offering that annuity since they buy zero-coupon Treasury bonds maturing on those dates, much the way corporate pension funds do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Fans who won a time slot in this drop but didn’t reach the ticket maximum will be automatically entered into subsequent ticket lotteries until they max out their ticket allotment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

What to know about dynamic pricing, lotteries and sale dates while trying to score seats.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

"It would be like winning four lotteries in a row. You've got to use a bit of common sense and be sensible and logical about it."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

They kiss my cheeks and hold my hand and tell me how they won money in the kingdom's lotteries by betting on me to be named the favorite.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton