wild card

Example Sentences

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But the supreme being and patron of all pontiffs has to be considered a wild card.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The availability of memory chips remains a wild card for tech firms.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

The wild card, however, is the duration of the war and the impact of a sustained bump in fuel prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Hutter is on the market after being sacked by Monaco in October, but he really would be a wild card.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

I need another moment where every wild card is in the same space at once, and I’ll get to be physically close enough to them in order to study their info.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu