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Recent Examples of speculator 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 With a speculator urban class in the Northeast becoming wealthy and a rural farming class in the South and the Midwest caught in the monetary brace of the Gold Standard, American democracy was ripe for change. — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025 The talking heads, always a key ingredient to the Ken Burns Experience, go to great lengths to describe not only the greatness of men like George Washington in particular, but also the darker side of their lives, like Washington’s position as a slaveholder and land speculator. — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2025 For at least one speculator, the LA offender appears to have also generated a profit. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2025 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

Definition of sharper

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Sheriff’s deputies had to force a few diehard gamblers away from their games at a casino in Commerce.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
It was alleged that eight members of the White Sox had been paid $100,000 by gamblers to throw the World Series.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026

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Longtime handicapper Bruce Marshall cautioned against assuming France and Argentina would meet in the final.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 June 2026
Pictured above, the hardworking AFP shooter Henry Nicholls produces yet another fine portrait in his shot of a young handicapper luxuriating in the Zenlike smoke-wreathed focus required to select just the perfect and perfectly-priced mounts to back in the next race.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026

Definition of handicapper

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