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Example sentences for: bets

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Quite straightforward and trustworthy, but I was making miniscule, unthreatening bets.
The New York Times worries about future "volatile confrontations" (read: nuclear warfare), and the Wall Street Journal bets the clash will aid Hindu nationalists in India's upcoming elections.
This method for identification of probable orthologs is, in principle, similar to the method employed in COG construction, but differs in that there is no requirement for the formation of triangles of consistent BeTs.
The result of this procedure is a conservative selection of orthologous pairs because the cases of lineage-specific duplication that result in non-symmetrical BeTs are excluded and so are orthologous pairs with very low sequence similarity.
Maybe that's why most people go for the sure thing in Question 1 but are willing to go for the slightly riskier of the two bets in Question 2. (Click for an experiment that could test this hypothesis.)