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blackjack

[blak-jak] / ˈblækˌdʒæk /
VERB
coerce
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


Example Sentences

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Two southeast Los Angeles cities proposed a sales tax increase to offset the financial impact of California’s blackjack ban, which officials said would devastate their local economies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

He said that if it lost its blackjack customers, it would probably have to lay off as many as 300 of its approximately 1,300 employees.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

It being a little early for blackjack at the towering Beau Rivage, where I’d booked a room for the night, I instead crossed the causeway to nearby Ocean Springs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

This is a job where you rent your first home, not buy, and don’t even bother to get a couch or hang your triptych of dogs playing blackjack on the wall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

For variety she found straggly mhuvuyu, blackjack weeds, and cooked their leaves as a kind of spinach.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer