gambit

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Since Haas became CEO in 2022, Arm has been aggressively pursuing revenue growth through price hikes and bundling, and the latest gambit is another move to keep that momentum going.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

But Schulman said inventing a new scenario wasn’t so much about protecting their gambit as it was about inventing something new — and raising the stakes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

He has only given you that $1,000 as an opening gambit, and now he wants something from you, but he is too Machiavellian to ask for it outright.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

Plus, cleaning up cloud storage, Google’s TPU gambit, Meta goes on trial and a “Fitbit for farts”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Tristran read it to himself, looking for something about which he could begin to talk: a conversational gambit of some kind—any kind.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman