parlayed

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Ten years later, that became the flagship of his nationwide Turner Broadcasting System, the profits from which he parlayed into the launch of CNN.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

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 • Feb. 16, 2026

Tisch is part of the iconic New York family that parlayed a single New Jersey hotel into the publicly traded Loews Corp. conglomerate, which spans insurance and high-end hospitality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

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 • Feb. 5, 2026

Our linguistic ancestors parlayed that incomprehension into euphemisms like passed on in which death consists of a journey to a remote location.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker