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Pascal told Deadline, external earlier this year that a casting announcement by the end of the year was a "good bet" but that Craig was a "hard act to follow".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Back in 2022, stocks sold off as investors bet that a recession was more or less guaranteed following a series of jumbo interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

If it walks like a bet and quacks like a bet, it’s a bet, not a trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Of all the celebrities I’d bet on botching their Halloween getup, Martha Stewart would have been the longest shot.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Maybe we type it up and print a clean copy? My aunt has a printer. I bet we can use it.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Meanwhile, high-conviction sector bets have fared even worse.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Last year the Melbourne Cup drew a record $382.5 million in bets.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Traders in leveraged ETFs can quickly find themselves deep in a hole that’s difficult to climb out from when their bets go the wrong way.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Lenders and investors are getting choosier about where to place their bets and are demanding tougher terms, signaling a new phase in the AI build-out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The fate of Scion Capital turned on these bets, but that fate was not, in the short run, determined by an open and free market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Some of those purchases may have been partly driven by hedge funds that had betted against GameStop, trying to cover their positions, and some of those funds made bad losses.

From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2021

No one betted on Ms. Warren dropping out.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2019

Prosecutors alleged that local media coverage had "aided and betted the overseas media's contempt".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2019

It was the precursor to the euro but the experience ended in humiliation for Britain when hedge funds, including the Hungarian billionaire George Soros, betted against the pound — and won.

From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2019

Once we would have said, Mr. Pecksniff quitted the firm, betted on the horses, and wetted his whistle, then wedded his sweetheart in a suit that fitted him perfectly.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In April, Kalshi fined Minnesota state Sen. Matt Klein for betting on his own congressional primary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

But industry estimates put more than two-thirds of sports prediction-market volume in states without legal sports betting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

In 2024 Kalshi told a circuit court, “Congress did not want sports betting to be conducted on derivatives markets.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

“The risk shifts to Lumentum holders, who will get Marvell’s paper and will be betting that the stock holds up.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

I’m betting that telling Ronan to stay away from a dare is like telling a seagull to stay away from a french fry.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt