Thesaurus results for GAMBLED

gambled

verb

past tense of gamble

as in bet

to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event a foolish man who gambled his life savings on the lottery

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Recent Examples of gambled Larson gambled during the sixth and final caution, staying on the track while other competitors including Bell went into the pits for fresh tires. — ABC News, 6 Sep. 2026 And, yes, this dice roller gambled on him reaching 1,000 yards at +400. — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Rather than finishing the ambitious project, Rinsch gambled much of the money in the cryptocurrency market before spending millions more on luxury purchases. — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 29 June 2026 Growers tore out the dependable whites that had made their name and gambled, vineyard by vineyard, on a harder, less forgiving grape. — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 Brendan Sorsby gambled on his own team to win a football game. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026 The company would have simply gambled on the wrong player. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 May 2026 Suarez wisely gambled on there being another downpour, taking only two tires when the rest of the leaders took four on a late pit stop with about 50 laps to go. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2026 Even the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs gambled his own security for success. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026

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The product pulls together data from several markets that allow users to bet on the cost to rent Nvidia chips to create an overall picture of where AI compute costs are heading.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Officials are betting, the gamification strategy – using a points system to track the habit for a modest reward – and a sense of public participation can help to restore a habit being fast replaced by brain rot-inducing doomscrolling.

— Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of bet

Verb

Fabian’s reporting put him in the crosshairs of strangers who had wagered fortunes on the subject matter of his article.

— Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
The function’s creator, Bernhard Riemann, wagered that the only way to make that output sum to exactly zero is to make the input variable’s real part exactly 1⁄2.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of wagered

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Richard Heathcote/Getty Images The 25-year-old was often rotated and played only 2,623 minutes across Ligue 1 and the Champions League but still managed 18 goals and 10 assists.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Sabalenka held and then played one of her best games of the match, breaking at love to tie it at 4-all.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

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