as in to risk
to take a chance on
a movie studio willing to gamble on a new actress for its summer blockbuster
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Yet market unpredictability will create opportunities for those with the tools to respond, and businesses that fail to invest in agile pricing systems risk significant profitability erosion.—
Doug Fuehne,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025 -
As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human creative spark in an ocean of pablum.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Gamble (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamble%20%28on%29. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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