Examples of wager in a Sentence
Noun
He has a wager on the game.
I don't think the horse will win. What's your wager?
Verb
She wagered $50 on the game.
I wouldn't wager against them.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
The Polymarket wager could violate the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), a federal law regulating futures and options trading, experts told CBS News.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
The commercial use of prediction markets has skyrocketed in recent years, opening the door for people to wager their money on the likelihood of a growing list of future events.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The platform opened wagers for those congressional elections within an hour of the federal judge ruling in its favor.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
The Polymarket wager could violate the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), a federal law regulating futures and options trading, experts told CBS News.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
What began as innocently wagering ten or twenty bucks on games escalated to putting $5,000 on long-shot parlays, day after day.
—Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
The commercial use of prediction markets has skyrocketed in recent years, opening the door for people to wager their money on the likelihood of a growing list of future events.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Wager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wager. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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