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Example sentences for: staked

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The LAT lead about managed care reform covers ground first staked out by a NYT lead a few months ago.
And all because, in Krauthammer's words, Clinton "staked the survival of the most successful alliance in history on bright new academic ideas cooked up far from the battlefields on which they now flounder."
On China, Morton Kondracke of The McLaughlin Group staked the center ground as usual.
She has staked her career on profitability.
That is (or ought to be) the duty of anyone who has staked his or her professional reputation on one particular scientific approach or methodology.