gambling
Example Sentences
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His latest is “The Widow,” a mystery featuring Simon Latch, a small-town lawyer with questionable morals and a gambling habit who is accused of murdering a wealthy woman.
At his Senate confirmation hearing in November, Selig declined to answer when asked whether sports event contracts are gambling, instead deferring to the courts.
From Barron's
Las Vegas Sands earnings weren’t all that bad but the company has a problem in Macau —the world’s largest gambling hub.
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The old ways of thinking are increasingly ignored because they conflict with this gambling mind-set.
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In the era of widespread, legal sports betting in most of the U.S., leagues and gambling operators have insisted that the fear of corruption was largely unfounded.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
