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Example sentences for: wager

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3) Many analysts regard Oracle's wager on network computers (an alternative to PCs) as a wasteful distraction.
Inevitably the mayors of Nashville and St. Louis will wager well-known local products on the big game.
‘If I had to wager, I'd bet people would go back to their old patterns eventually.
And while I can cite no academic study, I'd wager that today's average citizen who looks at the Sunday newspaper or a newsmagazine, listens to all-news radio stations during his commute, and catches a little TV news and talk radio at home is better informed than his counterpart from any era of Rosen's choosing.
Others blame Republicans for muting substantive conservative issues such as education reform in a misguided wager that the Lewinsky scandal would bring conservative voters to the polls.