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Recent Examples of handicapper
Barrett's is one of 18 seats viewed as a toss-up by nonpartisan election handicapper The Cook Political Report.
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Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Nonpartisan election handicappers Cook Political and Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the University of Virginia Center for Politics rate the New Jersey gubernatorial race as leaning Democratic.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 27 Sep. 2025
Late last year, though, the handicappers came out hot with their 2025 targets, which sent expectations high and set up investors for a nasty early-year setback, even before the tariff shock in April crushed the tape, humbled the bulls and then eventually set a trap for the bears.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2025
Not surprisingly, both parties have made the 13th District a top target in 2026; handicappers rate the contest a toss-up, even as the field sorts itself out.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2025
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Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Nonpartisan election handicappers Cook Political and Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the University of Virginia Center for Politics rate the New Jersey gubernatorial race as leaning Democratic.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 27 Sep. 2025
Late last year, though, the handicappers came out hot with their 2025 targets, which sent expectations high and set up investors for a nasty early-year setback, even before the tariff shock in April crushed the tape, humbled the bulls and then eventually set a trap for the bears.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2025
Not surprisingly, both parties have made the 13th District a top target in 2026; handicappers rate the contest a toss-up, even as the field sorts itself out.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handicapper
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A couple of years ago, the NCAA released a study finding that 67% of college students living on campus had engaged in sports betting, 41% had bet on their school’s teams, and 35% had used a student bookmaker.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Yet Americans wager tens of billions of dollars every year through offshore bookmakers.—
Danny Funt,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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With a speculator urban class in the Northeast becoming wealthy and a rural farming class in the South and the Midwest caught in the monetary brace of the Gold Standard, American democracy was ripe for change.—
David McWilliams,
Fortune,
16 Nov. 2025
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The talking heads, always a key ingredient to the Ken Burns Experience, go to great lengths to describe not only the greatness of men like George Washington in particular, but also the darker side of their lives, like Washington’s position as a slaveholder and land speculator.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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But Noel and Liam Gallagher defied oddsmakers and rounded the U.K. and Ireland for six weeks before landing in Toronto in August for a four-city, multi-date North American run.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
21 Dec. 2025
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While this accomplishes the goal of giving bettors a desirable user experience, the barriers to entry to become an oddsmaker seem to contradict an insistence that prediction markets are open, peer-to-peer and not gambling.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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If a tip leads to an arrest, the tipster may be eligible for a reward up to $5,000, the release said.—
Sofia Saric,
Miami Herald,
5 Jan. 2026
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An anonymous tipster also said Armstrong called Wilson so frequently, telling her to stay away from Strickland, that Wilson blocked her number.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
20 Dec. 2025
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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
Eric Stafford,
Car and Driver,
19 Feb. 2021
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“Handicapper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handicapper. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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