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Faced with a choice between going straight to trial or stepping into another short-term skirmish to avoid a preliminary injunction, Ellison, 43, took the big gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ordering a predawn ride-share to the airport is always a gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The gamble - spending its entire basketball budget on Jordan before he had even competed in the NBA - made Nike what it is today.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

They saw the ARM as a necessary gamble, the couple told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

No Muslim who followed Elijah Muhammad could dance, gamble, date, attend movies, or sports, or take long vacations from work.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

If those gambles pay off, the clients make it big and the managers pocket 20% of the gains.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Here, Holland’s Telemachus gambles Athena is hiding inside half the people he meets until his father chides, “Don’t look for gods in men, you’ll just be disappointed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Having just raised $122 billion in new funds at a valuation of $852 billion, OpenAI can probably afford a few speculative gambles.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

"During my 17 years in charge there were highs, lows, successes, failures, huge gambles and many mistakes along the way," Watt said.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

A smaller group used credit default swaps to make what often turned out to be spectacularly disastrous gambles on the relative value of subprime mortgage bonds—buying one subprime mortgage bond while simultaneously selling another.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Bonilla had excelled with the Mets earlier in his career, and they gambled that he could recapture the production of his youth by taking on the last two years and $11.65 million of his contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Most audacious of all was FedEx’s Fred Smith who literally gambled with the carrier’s last few thousand dollars to cover its fuel bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

That means Disney and ABC either chose to disregard its existence, or gambled – correctly, it turns out – that the public wouldn’t bother to look too deeply into what happened.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

That same year, Charles Ponzi arrived in America, nearly broke, having gambled away his savings on the voyage from his native Italy.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

She had gambled on the fact that Ammu, whatever else she did, however angry she was, would never publicly admit to her relationship with Velutha.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Lan said the sentence showed that unlicensed gambling was not a "victimless offence" and warned those who profit from it while ignoring safeguards designed to protect people "can expect to be brought before the courts".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Prison Radio Association's series about problem gambling, Hold or Fold, won the overall top prize for best podcast, and the award for best factual podcast.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled against prediction-market operator Kalshi on Friday, saying Ohio and Tennessee can apply their gambling laws to its sports-related event contracts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Alabama originally sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance in April 2025, alleging the app was engineered to hook young users "just like a sophisticated gambling machine."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Wondering at herself as she had many times this week that she was not shocked at Tea Cake’s gambling.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston