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as in interests
a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something
if I invest in your business, I expect a stake in it in return
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as in funds
to provide money for
the actor staked the entire production of the film with his own money
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Recent Examples of stakes
Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
With its high stakes, vivid action and steamy romance, the novel has struck a chord with Yarros's enthusiastic fanbase.
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Janey Wetzel,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
The Federal Communications Commission must evaluate the foreign ownership stakes due to Paramount’s holding of CBS broadcast licenses.
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Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
What starts as a series that aims to subvert the heist genre at every turn – amped with thrilling life-or-death stakes, family dynamics, and explosive action – gives birth to an exploration of what drives us, sustains us, and ultimately destroys us.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Both experts highlight parallels between sports, politics, and business, emphasizing the challenge of authentic communication under high stakes.
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Roger Trapp,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Christian Pulisic said the approach doesn't change in this round and that mood around the team remains light even with the high stakes in this part of the tournament.
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ABC News,
30 June 2026
Hosted by content creator Laro Benz, the show oversees couples competing across four high-stakes rounds built around the chaos of life at home.
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Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Indeterminate tomatoes need strong stakes, cages, or trellises for support due to their continuous growth and vining habit.
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Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Ocean Casino Resort stakes its claim directly on the Atlantic City Boardwalk with views of a ferris wheel and lighthouse as though to remind you of the city’s modest beachtown origins.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
November stakes In Lake County, the positions of Clerk, Treasurer, and Sheriff — currently held by Anthony Vega, Holly Kim and John Idleburg, respectively — are all coming up for election, as well as county board positions for Districts 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19.
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Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Small towns may have the majority of oceanfront real estate, but Pensacola stakes its claim with more than 50 miles of white-sand shoreline.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
That is, until Vlad arrives and stakes a claim on her every waking thought.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
The majority stakes the largest detention initiative in American history on the possibility that … Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained—some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.
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Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
12 Feb. 2026
For the Chinese Communist Party, which stakes its claim to legitimacy on defeating Japanese invaders during World War II, that would be an unforgivable outrage.
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Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Mexicali stakes a claim to the clamato cocktail, a heady blend of vodka, clam juice and other ingredients invented in the 1960s by a bartender at the city’s Acueducto Piano Bar.
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Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
In recent years, carriage negotiations have led to temporary channel blackouts between Disney and services such as YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, highlighting the high stakes of content licensing deals.
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Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
With its high stakes, vivid action and steamy romance, the novel has struck a chord with Yarros's enthusiastic fanbase.
—
Janey Wetzel,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
The Federal Communications Commission must evaluate the foreign ownership stakes due to Paramount’s holding of CBS broadcast licenses.
—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
What starts as a series that aims to subvert the heist genre at every turn – amped with thrilling life-or-death stakes, family dynamics, and explosive action – gives birth to an exploration of what drives us, sustains us, and ultimately destroys us.
—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Both experts highlight parallels between sports, politics, and business, emphasizing the challenge of authentic communication under high stakes.
—
Roger Trapp,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Christian Pulisic said the approach doesn't change in this round and that mood around the team remains light even with the high stakes in this part of the tournament.
—
ABC News,
30 June 2026
Hosted by content creator Laro Benz, the show oversees couples competing across four high-stakes rounds built around the chaos of life at home.
—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Indeterminate tomatoes need strong stakes, cages, or trellises for support due to their continuous growth and vining habit.
—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
Verb
The Arab Republic of Egypt (1953) stakes a natural claim to the Rosetta Stone, which was commissioned in 196 BCE by a Greek-speaking pharaoh of Macedonian descent, and unearthed near Alexandria by French engineers in 1799.
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Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Ocean Casino Resort stakes its claim directly on the Atlantic City Boardwalk with views of a ferris wheel and lighthouse as though to remind you of the city’s modest beachtown origins.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
November stakes In Lake County, the positions of Clerk, Treasurer, and Sheriff — currently held by Anthony Vega, Holly Kim and John Idleburg, respectively — are all coming up for election, as well as county board positions for Districts 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19.
—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Small towns may have the majority of oceanfront real estate, but Pensacola stakes its claim with more than 50 miles of white-sand shoreline.
—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
That is, until Vlad arrives and stakes a claim on her every waking thought.
—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
The majority stakes the largest detention initiative in American history on the possibility that … Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained—some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.
—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
12 Feb. 2026
For the Chinese Communist Party, which stakes its claim to legitimacy on defeating Japanese invaders during World War II, that would be an unforgivable outrage.
—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Mexicali stakes a claim to the clamato cocktail, a heady blend of vodka, clam juice and other ingredients invented in the 1960s by a bartender at the city’s Acueducto Piano Bar.
—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stakes
Noun
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That political independence has enabled the Fed to make decisions that might be unpopular in the short term, but that have the best interests of the US economy in mind for the long term.
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Republican legislators, taking their lead from a president who sees half the nation as his personal enemy, have put their own party’s interests over the republic’s.
Noun
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Some of Microsoft’s bets are paying off.
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Why place bets on a player with eroding bargaining power with its memory suppliers?
Verb
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One dollar of every ticket sold for the Saturday night concert went towards the CMT Research Foundation, an organization that funds research to find a cure for Charcot-Marie-Tooth.
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One dollar of every ticket sold on Saturday night the CMT Research Foundation, an organization that funds research to find a cure for Charcot-Marie-Tooth.
Verb
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However, some state workers currently using public transit have questions about capacity, especially as declining state and federal transit funding puts a strain on transit agencies.
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That puts her in the club of four other millionaire authors on the bench – Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas.
Noun
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General Motors shares have dropped almost 4% this year, giving up some ground after surging more than 52% in 2025 and 48% in 2024.
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Copilot has struggled, and Microsoft’s shares are down double-digits in the past year as investors have fretted over AI’s impact on software, Microsoft’s reliance on OpenAI, and its heavy data center spending.
Noun
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In the four-page ruling, Aquilina wrote that Kalshi violated the state's gaming industry by allowing people aged 18 to place wagers, as opposed to Michigan's age requirement of 21 and older.
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Kalshi risks more Illinois fights Illinois seems certain that there are many questions that courts must answer before prediction markets like Kalshi can keep taking sports wagers.
Verb
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Read on for your June career and finances horoscope according to your zodiac sign.
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Taxes from tabs go to the state Highway User Tax Distribution Fund, which finances Minnesota’s highway system.
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“Stakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stakes. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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