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stake

noun as in pole

noun as in bet, wager

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noun as in share, investment

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Cava’s Schulman is blunt about the stakes: “No deal, no discount, no marketing campaign can get you out of bad operations. If people have bad experiences, they’re not going to come back.”

Should people who find relatives through DNA sites be able to claim stakes in inheritances?

Each state has one, with paid staff and trained volunteers who don’t have a financial stake in which plan you choose.

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At the start of his trip, he warned that the world should not give into "a heightened level of conflict on the global level", adding that "the future of humanity is at stake".

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In “Glengarry Glen Ross,” a group of real-estate salesmen is pushed to compete fiercely after their new, no-nonsense boss raises the stakes of their monthly sales contest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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