gambled

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• Buying into the first generation of a folding product is a gamble—especially when it’s meant to replace your main work device.

• Her HBO show, I May Destroy You, has been a massive hit and has paid off her gamble from 2017, when she rejected a $1 million Netflix offer to buy the show rights because the streaming giant wouldn’t give her copyright royalties.

• Venture capital is by its nature a gamble—it’s right there in the name—and every gamble comes with the risk of heavy losses.

• Pouring money into plastics is a desperate gamble for Big Oil.

• That being said, it’s a gamble that in the long run pays a positive net return.

• Allowing the protests to go on with little interference was always a high-stakes gamble.

• Since Nestdrop continues to do so as of this writing, they wager a tense gamble that the odds will be in their favor.

• But the decision now to sever economic ties with the eastern regions was a surprise—and a gamble.

• As a result, the $1 million the DSCC is throwing in represents “an inexpensive gamble,” the source said.

• The pageant came back to Atlantic City and, appropriately, took a big gamble.

• If we find him there as Rutter said, you can gamble that trouble has camped in our dooryard for a lengthy stay.

• He was never so happy as when taking chances; his whole life was a gamble, with Providence holding the bank.

• They often dine together: the ladies love music and dancing, and some of the men gamble as much as the Portuguese.

• The Texan went off to rub down his horse, mend his accoutrements, squat around the cooking fires, and gamble with the drivers.