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as in bookseller
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as in handicapper
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Recent Examples of bookmaker
But as the season unfolded, injuries, managerial shake-ups, and high-profile transfers significantly altered the dynamics, leaving the defending champions, their challengers, and even the bookmakers struggling to keep up.
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Julia Ranney, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Still, even with the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner absent, Argentina are favoured by the bookmakers to win this game.
—Sam Tighe, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
But betting on March Madness is different and the odds, spread and totals can move quickly as bookmakers released betting lines for the next group of games as teams win and advance through the brakets.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
From 2017 to 2020, Greer allegedly used the company’s bank accounts to pay for personal expenses, including payments to bookmakers Wayne Joseph Nix and Ken Arsenian to cover sports gambling losses, and to purchase a 2021 Mercedes-Benz automobile, court papers show.
—City News Service, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025
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Julia Ranney, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Still, even with the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner absent, Argentina are favoured by the bookmakers to win this game.
—Sam Tighe, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
But betting on March Madness is different and the odds, spread and totals can move quickly as bookmakers released betting lines for the next group of games as teams win and advance through the brakets.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
From 2017 to 2020, Greer allegedly used the company’s bank accounts to pay for personal expenses, including payments to bookmakers Wayne Joseph Nix and Ken Arsenian to cover sports gambling losses, and to purchase a 2021 Mercedes-Benz automobile, court papers show.
—City News Service, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookmaker
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Publishers and booksellers have done over $100 million in sales through the platform, and book sales currently are surging, with sales up 75% year-over-year, according to Faire.—
Joan Verdon,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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In March, 1942, three months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a group of publishers, booksellers, and librarians led by William Warder Norton, of W. W. Norton, formed the Council on Books in Wartime.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Instead of working with the best of the best, Haney now instructs amateur players of all ages and abilities, ranging from low handicappers to the dreamer who just wants to break 90.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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Top political handicappers tweak their predictions Los Tigres del Norte has been outspoken in championing the rights of Latinos and immigrants living in the United States.—
Rafael Carranza,
The Arizona Republic,
31 Oct. 2024
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Information from one tipster led investigators to believe Sharkey may have attempted to take a picture or video during the incident, Snapp said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
22 Mar. 2025
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The probable cause affidavit also details how the fast work of an anonymous tipster, school offiicials and several law enforcement agencies may have thwarted a mass tragedy.—
Lex Harvey, Holly Yan and Rebekah Riess,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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With perennial winner Game of Thrones ineligible that year, oddsmakers had mostly settled on Netflix’s The Crown to take home the Drama Series award for its debut season.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
3 May 2025
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Those odds were solely based on the morning line oddsmaker’s opinion.—
Max Meyer,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Yet this London gathering demonstrated a stark separation between price speculators and practical users.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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No war materialized, so there was more speculation: No gangster would have dared to kill Lansky’s stepson, the speculators said.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Bookmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookmaker. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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