Synonyms of wagered

wagered

verb

past tense of wager

as in bet

to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event

wagered 20 dollars that his favorite team would win

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bet
• put
• gambled
• played
• staked
• offered
• laid
• went
• speculated
• ventured
• bade
• chanced
• hazarded
• jeopardized
• endangered
• imperiled
• adventured

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wagered

Kalshi also fined and suspended three congressional candidates who the company said wagered on the outcome of their own elections in April. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

More than $450,000 had been wagered on this question before it was taken off Polymarket's platform. — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Your stake can be wagered on Fanantics with a $20 wager to earn $350 in FanCash when using promo code FOXNEWS350. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Prediction sites have exploded in popularity this year, with billions of dollars wagered on everything from sports to elections, entertainment and even the weather. — Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

The 48-team tournament was a major betting event, with billions wagered on the regulated apps alone. — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 26 Sep. 2026

Fabian’s reporting put him in the crosshairs of strangers who had wagered fortunes on the subject matter of his article. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

The function’s creator, Bernhard Riemann, wagered that the only way to make that output sum to exactly zero is to make the input variable’s real part exactly 1⁄2. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

But short covering has also contributed to the decline, according to S3, as investors who had wagered against SpaceX bought back stock to exit their positions. — Yun Li, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026