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speculator

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Definition of speculator

as in sharper

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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

Definition of sharper

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The beer is cheap, admission is free, and the track is easily accessible by subway, attracting a broad swath of devoted gamblers across the five boroughs.

— Rebecca Egan McCarthy, New Yorker, 21 July 2026
But — but since humans love to gamble so much, there’s more money in — in actually cultivating gamblers than there are cultivating investors.

— Alex Crippen, CNBC, 18 July 2026

Definition of gambler

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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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