Thesaurus results for JACKPOTS

jackpots

noun

plural of jackpot

as in predicaments

chiefly West a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape a wily dude who managed to get himself out of one jackpot after another

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as in pools

the total of the bets at stake at one time once the jackpot hit $100 million, everybody and his cousin was buying lottery tickets

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Recent Examples of jackpots Lucky Day Lotto is an Illinois-only game with two daily drawings in the afternoon and evening, with jackpots starting at $100,000. — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 Nobody won the Powerball, Florida Lotto or Fantasy 5 midday draw jackpots. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2026 The prize joins a growing list of jackpots that have produced some of the biggest lottery payouts in the United States. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2026 Thunder Valley has paid out more than 251,000 jackpots over the past year, averaging nearly 700 jackpots per day, or roughly one every 2 minutes. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 2026 Four of the biggest 10 jackpots in Powerball history have had tickets sold in California, including the largest one in 2022. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 The jackpot is now the eighth largest jackpots in game history. — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Aemond, too, for that matter, while Daemon’s arrogance continues to get Team Black into all sorts of predicaments.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Rather than bridging shortfalls, both Seattle and Washington now face more difficult fiscal predicaments, Joblon said.

— Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026

Definition of predicaments

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The doubles pools are practically unchanged from last year, other than marginal boosts to the earlier rounds.

— Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026
In high school, Messick and his buddies would gather in one of their backyard pools, order pizza and watch the All-Star week festivities.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of pools

Noun

All of these have enough body and heft to stand up to the moisture from the pickles without turning watery in an hour or two.

— Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
Vegans can also get in on the fun combinations; the Big Mack is loaded with Impossible Burger, vegan mozzarella and Thousand Island dressing, pickles, white onion, iceberg lettuce and sesame seeds.

— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 18 Aug. 2026

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Those funds went toward student success initiatives, faculty research programs, and capital projects, and UC Merced is also largely an institution for first-generation college students.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Those funding buckets are called general funds, and county budgets do detail how much each department receives from those funds.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of funds

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Even a carriage horse at the foot of the ancient monument has joined in, sporting a brown bucket hat with holes cut for its ears.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Place the magnetic keys inside the frame’s hangers, then press it into the wall to create two perfect holes to add your hardware in exactly the right spot.

— Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of holes

Noun

Flash flooding swamps Henry County Aubrey Wright Commissioner Steve Dellinger said Henry County is probably looking at record rainfall and flooding.

— Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2026
But bad ideas are like those Hollywood horror movies in which monsters always reemerge from the swamps to terrorize us again.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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