handicapper

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Recent Examples of handicapper Derby: Expert handicapper Ed DeRosa is a big proponent that winning money at the Kentucky Derby is more important than picking the winner. Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025 Mid-year is also a time for market handicappers to update their best guesses on where things go from here. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 June 2025 Several other pros hinted at the same notion that an 18 handicapper could not possibly finish 18 at Oakmont, at least not with the allotted dozen balls. Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025 Respected handicappers and professional bettors have taken an interest in the Vikings, who are back to a -1 to -1.5 point favorite. Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for handicapper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handicapper
Noun
  • Flanagan remembers walking into a bookmaker’s shop in Cardiff to ask what the odds were for the game.
    Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • As mentioned here, Real—second and four points off champion Barcelona last time—is odds-on with the bookmakers to win La Liga on this occasion.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For at least one speculator, the LA offender appears to have also generated a profit.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • On top of that, speculators will also be bracing for further volatility as Trump’s latest tariff deadline—Aug. 7—creeps closer.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The data supports why oddsmakers continue to tilt the line toward the Buckeyes when playing at the Horseshoe.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • So would your vote go to Doherty, as the oddsmakers predict?
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Noted tipster Tarun Vats warns that Samsung is falling behind schedule.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • An anonymous tipster called police to say the bandits were trying to sell their loot less than a mile away, and gave the cops Hussein’s Instagram handle, according to court filings.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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