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The gaming complex, which featured a practically closed outlet mall (one shop remains), a robust lotto store and a host of other gas stations and fast food restaurants, closed Buffalo Bill’s last July.—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026 This 2026 class is loaded with potential, and everything around it comes into focus once the lotto is drawn.—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 May 2026 But that doesn’t mean the Terry Rozier fiasco can’t have the NBA rig the lotto hopper.—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2026 For decades, my mother carried around a stack of my grandparents’ lotto bingo cards.—Laura Brown, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lotto
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French & Italian; French loto, borrowed from Italian lotto "lottery, game of chance based on guessing numbers drawn from an urn" (originally lotto di Genova "Genoa lottery"), borrowed from Middle French lot "lot, portion, share" — more at allot