put money on

Example Sentences

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Event contracts sold on prediction markets allow customers to put money on a team and get paid if they win, and the platforms have spent the past year beefing up their offerings to more closely resemble sportsbooks.

From Barron's

There’s plenty of appetite to put money on the big game.

From MarketWatch

Polymarket’s backers speak glowingly about the promise of harnessing the wisdom of the crowd, arguing that people who put money on the line are more likely to be right than purported experts and biased commentators.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each of those possibilities is available to put money on via prediction market behemoth Kalshi, but it’s other offerings by Kalshi and similar platforms that have irked California lawmakers, gaming tribes and even the NFL: wagers on the game that mimic traditional sports bets that are, for the time being, legal to make.

From Los Angeles Times

Investors continue to question the profitability of Big Tech’s AI investments and tech-stock valuations — and that’s leading them to put money on new momentum leaders.

From MarketWatch