gamble (on)

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risk
Verb
  • Several of her cabinet picks have close ties to Taiwan, risking friction with Beijing, Japan’s top trading partner.
    Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The organization was in a bureaucratic bind, and had to find a way to hold what should have been the second major of 2020 or risk financial peril.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Gamble (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamble%20%28on%29. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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