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gambled (on)

verb

past tense of gamble (on)

as in risked

to take a chance on a movie studio willing to gamble on a new actress for its summer blockbuster

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risked

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The company had previously said a penalty in the billions of dollars risked violating its constitutional rights to due process and protection from excessive fines.

— Reuters, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026

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