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speculator

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Recent Examples of speculator On Monday, Japan’s top currency official, Atsushi Mimura, warned speculators not to test the Ministry of Finance, a clear hint currency intervention could be on the way. — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2026 Thomas Jefferson and other politicians, many of them land speculators, would pursue Native land cessions for both personal and political gain into the 1800s. — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 In 2008, towards the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama frequently berated oil speculators for artificially inflating prices. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026 Long before that, Point Richmond was an island surrounded by water and marshes, on land owned by 1800s farmer and real estate speculator John Nicholl. — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for speculator

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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
Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.

— Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021

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But on Monday, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likened many of the investors drawn to the AI boom to gamblers and questioned the economics of AI labs as Wall Street debates whether the AI bubble will burst.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Bettors would then wager against the players’ teams in those games, defrauding sportsbooks and other gamblers, authorities said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of gambler

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Those changes help move the number of possible pickups for Democrats from two to six seats, according to Cook, a nonpartisan election handicapper.

— Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026
First, let’s hear from Nathan Gonzales, another longtime election handicapper.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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