as in gamble
a risky undertaking
there are almost no sure bets in the movie business—almost everything is a crapshoot
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Recent Examples of crapshoot
Everyone could use a more extensive palette of human possibility than the one supplied by the crapshoot of an immediate family.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
The crapshoot nature of the draft is exemplified by what happened in the aftermath of the Heat’s selections of Adebayo and Herro.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
Injuries are, too, and then the playoffs can be a crapshoot.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
The following contains spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Survivor 48.
Survivor players can’t make it to the end alone, but sometimes, even one’s best attempts at building trust remain a crapshoot.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 Mar. 2025
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
The crapshoot nature of the draft is exemplified by what happened in the aftermath of the Heat’s selections of Adebayo and Herro.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
Injuries are, too, and then the playoffs can be a crapshoot.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
The following contains spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Survivor 48.
Survivor players can’t make it to the end alone, but sometimes, even one’s best attempts at building trust remain a crapshoot.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crapshoot
Noun
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Wolf might not be perfect, but the upside of betting on him hitting is worth the gamble.—
Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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That’s enough money to make staying in college the bigger gamble.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
Noun
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When corporate processes eclipse the culture, ventures almost inevitably falter.—
Jennifer J. Fondrevay,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Initially hoping to profile the alluring con, journalist Wes Easton’s venture takes a different direction when Roya asks him to ghostwrite a memoir for her instead as a means of resurrecting her reputation.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
Noun
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There had been much speculation surrounding Pac-12 conference expansion since the conference announced its plans to add members of the Mountain West Conference in September 2024.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The currency pair is expected to swing both ways as the Taiwan dollar gets caught between speculation of central bank intervention and weakness in the greenback, Lim added.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 July 2025
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“Crapshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapshoot. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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