PARLAY Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

parlay

verb

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to use or develop (something) to get something else that has greater value He hoped to parlay his basketball skills into a college scholarship.

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Recent Examples of parlay That didn’t stop him from parlaying his celebrity into raising awareness for ALS, a rare condition for which there is currently no cure. —

Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Feb. 2026 Freestyle skier Eileen Gu and snowboarder Chloe Kim are part of a handful of elite athletes who have parlayed their Olympic fame into millions of dollars in sponsorships. —

Rafael Nam, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026 So we should all be braced for the strong possibility that one or two or three of those picks in the first two rounds will be parlayed into slightly lower picks, plus additional picks. —

Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026 Perhaps the Canucks can parlay Blueger’s penalty killing chops into a third-round pick, while adding an additional later pick for Kämpf. —

Thomas Drance, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for parlay

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Oseguera was the leader and co-founder of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a criminal group that has rapidly expanded its influence in recent years, becoming one of the main traffickers of methamphetamine and fentanyl into the US.

— Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Four years of war between Russia and Ukraine are beginning to take their toll on the countries' demographics as the conflict puts women off — or prevents them — from starting or expanding their families.

— Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026