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The 28-year-old told BBC Scotland earlier this year that "gold in Scotland is what I grew up thinking about" and you'd be a brave soul to wager against him when he's in this mood.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

For McDuffie, who made $5.78 profit from her “Love Island” wager, the risk hasn’t dampened the appeal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Industry veterans were initially stunned by the size of Chung’s wager and happily sold him ships, believing the boom-bust tanker market would soon teach the relative newcomer a lesson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

That makes Nvidia the closest thing to a neutral wager on the category: It sells into Tesla’s rivals, Uber’s partners and the Chinese operators alike and collects whether or not any single network wins.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Kilrain said, “Make you a little wager, Colonel. We’ll sit here all day and in the evening we’ll march away again.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Former congressman George Santos will pay more than $35,000 to settle a regulator’s claim that he manipulated wagers on prediction market Kalshi over whether he would attend the State of the Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Revenue from event contracts in Robinhood’s prediction-market segment — which allows users to place wagers on things like sports and politics — increased more than tenfold to $156 million during the second quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Market hosts make money by charging a fee on wagers.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

The expected $50bn total would be a major increase from the $35bn of wagers placed during the 2022 World Cup, which was held in Qatar.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

To Kit’s surprise the husking was fun, enlivened by singing and wagers and jokes that seemed uproariously funny.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Suzuki wagered schools would bring history classes to view “Fireflies,” a story where Something Happens, then stay to watch “Totoro” as a kind of palate cleanser.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

The largest such platform, Kalshi, told AFP that $29 million have been wagered on SpaceX-related questions, from Musk's net worth at end-2026 to the possibility of a Mars landing before 2030.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Other violations could also result in loss of eligibility with the amount of time missed based on the amount of money wagered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

Bettors on prediction market platform Polymarket have wagered a 48% chance of traffic through the route going back to normal by the end of April, down from 65% one month ago.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

That they laughed and wagered upon our deaths?

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

For months, investors have been often willing to look past the conflict, wagering that the two countries could negotiate a resolution well before the war posed a long-term threat to markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

International investors are wagering that London-listed stocks trade at a discount, underlining the valuation gap between U.K. stocks and their international peers, Streeter writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

“Our modeling is deterministic and physics‑based; it is not informed by markets, wagering systems, crowd predictions, or any other form of prediction‑market mechanism,” SeLegue said.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

The difference came because, as the New York Times noted, the 33-year-old bureaucrat-slash-law student didn’t go all-in wagering on Daily Doubles like Holzhauer had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

But Seabiscuit was a fail-safe moneymaker, drawing record crowds and wagering virtually everywhere he showed his face.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand