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Centering strategy on controlling the Strait of Hormuz is an extraordinary gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

His brave gamble failed and the bronze medallist from the last two Games trailed home in sixth.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

"To get subbed in, having not done any efforts in this team, or in this track, or in this order, it was always going to be a bit of a gamble."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Trading yield to chase those clients’ business is certainly a gamble for Main Street banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

With all my anxieties, my sense of taking a last desperate gamble, and so on, I had not been realistic enough to believe him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Here, Holland’s Telemachus gambles Athena is hiding inside half the people he meets until his father chides, “Don’t look for gods in men, you’ll just be disappointed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Having just raised $122 billion in new funds at a valuation of $852 billion, OpenAI can probably afford a few speculative gambles.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Traders report minimal foot traffic, and investors appear hesitant, delaying major moves that now look more like gambles than strategic decisions.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

So far the stock market likes his gambles on high-tech moonshots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

And then, on the twenty-ninth move, with the position equal, Fischer engaged in one of the most dangerous gambles of his career.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

From the messy set of ‘Apocalypse Now’ to the secret edits of ‘Star Wars,’ author Paul Fischer pulls back the curtain on how Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg gambled their friendships to build the modern blockbuster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

"Like many legacy automakers it gambled on motorists making a quick move to EVs - and lost as the world shifted."

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

A hot Silicon Valley tech player on the cusp of going public, a payday for all of those who gambled on its once unlikely success that somehow became obvious…and then trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

That means Disney and ABC either chose to disregard its existence, or gambled – correctly, it turns out – that the public wouldn’t bother to look too deeply into what happened.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

She had gambled on the fact that Ammu, whatever else she did, however angry she was, would never publicly admit to her relationship with Velutha.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

But despite being an unsavory collection of criminals, Mr. Goode’s cast of characters could survive quite handsomely without gambling everything with each shipment of Fiji banded iguanas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple," James said in a news release.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

New York wants the court to ban Kalshi from operating in the state without a gambling license and force it to forfeit all of its gains—as much as $36 billion in penalties and disgorgement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Kalshi faces similar legal challenges in multiple US states where gaming regulators have issued cease-and-desist orders or filed suit accusing the platform of operating an unlicensed gambling business.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

But the press’s distrust and the absence of gambling did nothing to cool the enthusiasm of racing fans.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand