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From a £9m prospect to a £1m gamble and eventually a £117m Chelsea signing, his story is a reminder that some of the best footballers need to overcome setbacks from a young age.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Nearly lost the car on slicks during the formation procedure and ultimately fell all the way to 16th as Alpine's gamble failed to pay off.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

They saw the ARM as a necessary gamble, the couple told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

But that’s a bit of a gamble because time is just never on anyone’s side.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

He did not think of this course of action as suicidal, but as another gallant gamble of the sort he was accustomed to winning.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

They take big gambles on trends — carry trades, momentum and so on.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

"During my 17 years in charge there were highs, lows, successes, failures, huge gambles and many mistakes along the way," Watt said.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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

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

The 21-year-old art history major says she had never gambled on anything before, but as an Oscars obsessive she surmised that Timothée Chalamet’s “Marty Supreme” campaign was on shaky ground with traditional voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

The people on the other side—the entire financial system, essentially—had gambled with the odds against them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Lan said the sentence showed that unlicensed gambling was not a "victimless offence" and warned those who profit from it while ignoring safeguards designed to protect people "can expect to be brought before the courts".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Both converged last month on Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who quit Anthropic warning that AI companies were "gambling with our lives."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Alabama originally sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance in April 2025, alleging the app was engineered to hook young users "just like a sophisticated gambling machine."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Still, Kalshi and other prediction markets argue their wagers, offered as a type of financial contract and traded on an exchange, aren’t gambling at all and therefore should be exempt from state supervision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Did Kaz think he was going to bolt straight to the nearest gambling hall?

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo