variants
or better
as in gambler
one that bets (as on the outcome of a contest or sports event)
bettors on the horse race have to place their bets at least 20 minutes before the start of the race
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In at least once instance, authorities said Rozier feigned injury to exit a game early, helping bettors who wagered on him failing to make various statistical benchmarks in that contest.
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David K. Li, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
Laster allegedly sold this information to two betters for about $100,000.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 17 Dec. 2025
Cote reasoned the bettors could have read the terms of promotions before wagering.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Dec. 2025
The screen behind him showed that bettors on Kalshi peg the likelihood of checks arriving by next August at twenty-five per cent.
—Danny Funt, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
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David K. Li, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
Laster allegedly sold this information to two betters for about $100,000.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 17 Dec. 2025
Cote reasoned the bettors could have read the terms of promotions before wagering.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Dec. 2025
The screen behind him showed that bettors on Kalshi peg the likelihood of checks arriving by next August at twenty-five per cent.
—Danny Funt, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bettor
gambler
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In this collection of short stories, there is a story as syllabus, a board game, middle school gamblers, generous dead neighbors, and a professional gynecology patient.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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The gambler hit a royal flush on the flop in the poker game.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Bettor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bettor. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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