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Example sentences for: gambled

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The NYT runs the indictments story inside, adding that a nationwide survey of Division I basketball and football players showed that 4 percent said they had gambled on a game they had played in.
Lewis, a Wall Street convert himself, interviews media hermit and Long-Term mastermind John Meriwether and his legion of smart "young professors" who gambled on market hyper-rationality to power their finance strategy (as Lewis explains, "things people did with money when they were frightened was an opportunity for more reasonable people to exploit").
When I took a trip to Atlantic City and gambled away the amount I had intended, she warned, A fool and his money are soon parted.
By taking away the jury's choice to consider a manslaughter conviction, Scheck gambled that they shared his ability to operate within a "narrowed framework."
They drank, gambled and swore like, well, sailors.