wild card

Example Sentences

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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

The wild card is air travel demand as U.S. and global economies absorb significantly higher energy prices, they wrote.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

“The biggest wild card here is duration,” Romaine said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Economic conditions remain a wild card for the rest of 2026 as investors parse how AI will reshape the labor market.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

Beside them they felt the hole that Izzy, the freshman, the black sheep, the wild card, had left behind—though they were still certain, all of them, that this hole would be temporary.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng