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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gamble.

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Examples

  • So they gobbled and gambled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, until they'd swined a whole continent.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • The missed opportunity would come back to haunt Kent State moments later when coach Doug Martin gambled on fourth-and-1 near midfield.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • So they gobbled and gambled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, until they'd swined a whole continent.

    Chapter 10 1913

  • If he had 'invested' it aka gambled on Wall St, he could as easily have lost the money rather than increasing it.

    Floyd Norris 2009

  • If he had 'invested' it aka gambled on Wall St, he could as easily have lost the money rather than increasing it.

    Floyd Norris 2009

  • Jones, 54, of Waukesha, foolishly "gambled" by dealing drugs and by lying to his lawyer about being beaten and tortured in a POW camp for nearly four months before escaping, the judge said.

    Ary Jones 2010

  • Who deregulated the banking industry to allow derivative mortgages to be "gambled" on?

    Massachusetts Republican targeted in new TV ad 2010

  • Ogilvy, who was some ten years older than I, and who belonged to one of our old families, had embarked on a career then becoming common, but which at first was regarded as somewhat meteoric: gradually abandoning the practice of law, and perceiving the possibilities of the city of his birth, he had "gambled" in real estate and other enterprises, such as our local water company, until he had quadrupled his inheritance.

    A Far Country — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Ogilvy, who was some ten years older than I, and who belonged to one of our old families, had embarked on a career then becoming common, but which at first was regarded as somewhat meteoric: gradually abandoning the practice of law, and perceiving the possibilities of the city of his birth, he had "gambled" in real estate and other enterprises, such as our local water company, until he had quadrupled his inheritance.

    A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Ogilvy, who was some ten years older than I, and who belonged to one of our old families, had embarked on a career then becoming common, but which at first was regarded as somewhat meteoric: gradually abandoning the practice of law, and perceiving the possibilities of the city of his birth, he had "gambled" in real estate and other enterprises, such as our local water company, until he had quadrupled his inheritance.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

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