bet on
Example Sentences
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Original Opportunity Zone investors who bet on tax deferral were rewarded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
All you could do was bet on a binary outcome: whether the next trade in a given stock would be up or down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That is the product of one company’s own misjudged bet on rates, not any indication of poorly underwritten FHA mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He is making a long bet on a market a much larger company has struggled with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“I don’t know why I didn’t think of it myself. We’ll catch those monkeys this time for sure. You can bet on that.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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