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stakes

noun as in jackpot

Strongest match

noun as in pool

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Allowing the protests to go on with little interference was always a high-stakes gamble.

Indeed, it may never unless Western powers start raising the political stakes.

But the stakes are too high this Tuesday for any woman to stay home.

These stakes have created a financial arms race that almost certainly will make this election historically expensive.

It will go to the Shia majority and is the subject of an ongoing struggle with very high stakes indeed.

These stakes are gold only as yet, and no man's venture seems over five pounds.

It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.

The body was resting upon a plank supported by four stakes and covered with skins.

The stakes were too rough to admit the possibility of any finger-prints that might be microscopically detected.

She was playing for tremendously high stakes, and her share of the victory was the price of a throne.

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On this page you'll find 150 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stakes, such as: bar, barbed wire, barricade, block, dike/dyke, and net.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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