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
When Bill Drolet dropped his daughter off for her first year at St Andrews, he parlayed it into a golf trip with buddies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 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
Tom Hicks, who died at 79, parlayed an early mastery of leveraged buyouts to create one of the world’s first modern professional sports empire.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
“The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
