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Recent Examples of handicapper
But there are hints that the unleashed-animal-spirits theme that kicked in late last year and was part of every handicappers upbeat 2025 outlook is bidding for a do-over.
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 May 2025
So some handicappers like to forecast the Kentucky Derby by analyzing how horses perform down the stretch of their last prep race before Churchill Downs.
—Peter Keating, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Democrats are early favorites to win governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia this year, according to a leading elections handicapper.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
More seriously, Baffert noted that he’d been pleasantly surprised by the increasing maturity Rodriguez had exhibited in training recently, which, in Baffert-parlance, is the trademark laconic New-Mexico-cowboy sort of praise that handicappers would do well to take seriously on Saturday.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 May 2025
So some handicappers like to forecast the Kentucky Derby by analyzing how horses perform down the stretch of their last prep race before Churchill Downs.
—Peter Keating, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Democrats are early favorites to win governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia this year, according to a leading elections handicapper.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
More seriously, Baffert noted that he’d been pleasantly surprised by the increasing maturity Rodriguez had exhibited in training recently, which, in Baffert-parlance, is the trademark laconic New-Mexico-cowboy sort of praise that handicappers would do well to take seriously on Saturday.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handicapper
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Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (DCS) has posted the chip's preliminary CPU performance results on Weibo.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Guevara's coverage of immigration raids, often documented live with the help of a network of tipsters, has earned him a substantial social media following that exceeds 782,000 on Facebook alone.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
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Journalism is the favorite to win, according to the most recent odds, but Sovereignty isn’t too far away in the bookmakers’ estimations.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
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While bookmakers and Vatican watchers differ in predictions, several names consistently emerge as front-runners.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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My favorite account of the crisis of 1907 was that of Jesse Livermore, one of the largest speculators of the time.—
Nathan Lewis,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Initially, some speculators were concerned that homebuyers would be hesitant to purchase in an area that recently burned.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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McCoy’s alma mater, Texas, is a favorite to win the upcoming national championship according to oddsmakers, and despite the Longhorns’ recent success, the school hasn’t been to a national championship game since 2009 when McCoy was still starring in Austin.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2025
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Consider: The Dodgers and the Yankees are the only teams given at least a 10% chance by FanGraphs analytics and several oddsmakers.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 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 1 Jul. 2025.
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