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Recent Examples of wager
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
Matching three symbols across the middle gets your wager back, but a diagonal match is worth several times your wager.
—Christopher Gerlacher, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Jessica Boehm, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
According to consumer protection officials, slot machines in Connecticut are regulated and required to pay back at least 80% of the amount wagered over time to players.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2025
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Noun
When teams face off in the playoffs, mayors of the cities often make wagers, and Lucas has cleaned up.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
Matching three symbols across the middle gets your wager back, but a diagonal match is worth several times your wager.
—Christopher Gerlacher, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
The American Gaming Association estimates betters nationwide will wager $1.39 billion on the big game — an 11.2% increase from the projection made by research firm Eilers & Krejcik Gaming for last year's Super Bowl.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
According to consumer protection officials, slot machines in Connecticut are regulated and required to pay back at least 80% of the amount wagered over time to players.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wager
Noun
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For us, when democracy is at stake, the answer is no.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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Preventing it from happening again, as Vance pledged to do at Dachau, Scholz said, cannot be reconciled with support for the AfD. More is at stake than German politics.—
Massimo Calabresi/Dachau,
TIME,
22 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Like many other tech companies, AWS, which is Amazon’s most profitable unit, is betting big on AI.—
Ayesha Javed,
TIME,
16 Feb. 2025
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The company is betting on a pipeline built around its messenger RNA platform, which is the technology used in both of those products.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Emmy-winning show puts an unlikely mix of reality TV stars competing to solve a murder mystery game in exchange for $250,000.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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The shot by Eduard Löwen hit the post, then St. Louis put it in the back of the net on a rebound, but it was called offside.—
Braidon Nourse,
The Denver Post,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Wager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wager. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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