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Example sentences for: staked

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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.
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."
In 1648, the French staked claim to their part of Saint-Martin and to nearby Saint-Barthélemy.
The presidential candidates have staked their places on the Web to raise money, to distribute speeches and position papers, and to show off their cybersavvy.
Critics dump on the gratuitous violence--especially a rape and murder scene involving a naked woman staked to the ground--in this thriller starring John Travolta, James Woods, and Madeleine Stowe.