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His rationale: A traditional degree felt like a gamble and he wanted technical skills that would make him indispensable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

They are in for Lille's Ayyoub Bouaddi, who is a talented player but he is 18, and would be a massive gamble.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The appointment, as with so many, is a gamble - but Fulham have established themselves in the Premier League, so will want another season of stability.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

How do advisers handle clients who love to gamble?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

It was a gamble I had to take.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Traders report minimal foot traffic, and investors appear hesitant, delaying major moves that now look more like gambles than strategic decisions.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

So far the stock market likes his gambles on high-tech moonshots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 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

When he gambled with a risky ball and failed to find a target, there was another uprising.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

A hot Silicon Valley tech player on the cusp of going public, a payday for all of those who gambled on its once unlikely success that somehow became obvious…and then trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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

The moves were a complete departure from last year, when the Rams wrongly gambled that a young and aggressive pass rush could offset their decision to not make a single upgrade to the secondary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

Inej’s debt to Per Haskell meant she gambled her life every time she took on a new job or assignment, every time she left her room at the Slat.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

"When someone is looking for the community council and are met with this gambling portal they will think something is wrong and of course not engage with the site," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Flaherty that prediction-market contracts are “swaps” under the Commodity Exchange Act, and that therefore federal law pre-empts state gambling statutes from reaching these markets.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Nothing about these contracts is an investment. Nothing about them is a rational hedge for a financial position. They are pure and simple gambling vehicles running through a U.S. government-regulated exchange,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

"It doesn't always feel like movements are driven by rational reasons - sometimes it still feels a lot like gambling," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

I explained how the toilet scum from the gambling boat flowed down the shoreline to Thunder Beach.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen