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From a £9m prospect to a £1m gamble and eventually a £117m Chelsea signing, his story is a reminder that some of the best footballers need to overcome setbacks from a young age.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

But that’s a bit of a gamble because time is just never on anyone’s side.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Among the many ironies of all this is that newly rich sports stars and celebrities have the least reason to gamble on obscure get-rich-quick schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

To them it seemed as if Hubler and his traders didn’t fully understand their own gamble.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Elko knows as well as anyone how this all-or-nothing economy turns high-cost NIL deals into massive gambles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

They, too, were gambles, rolls of the dice.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

"Like many legacy automakers it gambled on motorists making a quick move to EVs - and lost as the world shifted."

From BBC ● May 14, 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

“Four thousand...! I wouldn’t have gambled if I’d known you were this bliddy good,” he said.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

Both converged last month on Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who quit Anthropic warning that AI companies were "gambling with our lives."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

An outrageous score, with an outrageous slice of luck presuming Carreras was gambling to get anything on the ball, rather than plotting that particular flightpath.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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

Chaises and high-backed chairs and claw-footed sofas circle the game tables, which spill over with candles, desserts, and pastel-colored gambling chips.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton