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That being said, it’s a gamble that in the long run pays a positive net return.

But the decision now to sever economic ties with the eastern regions was a surprise—and a gamble.

Unfortunately, that gamble was at the expense of Miss America's supposed mission.

Vincent teaches young Oliver how to fight bullies, how to gamble, what a hooker is––you know, the important things in life.

While CBS is taking a gamble on a relatively unknown (and unproven) talent, to many critics this decision was all too predictable.

Plus, Procter & Gamble has already removed triclosan from its Crest toothpaste.

You see, there was a guy in the crowd—or had been, rather, whose wife didn't want him to gamble.

Was this the moment, I ask you, for his wicked old mother to gamble herself into disgrace and bankruptcy?

Who taught us to gamble with buttons—to play "odd or even," and lose our breakfasts and dinners?

Or again, should she fascinate a du Tillet or a Nucingen, and gamble on the stock exchange to pay her creditors?

But there's excuses, and you can just gamble I'm the old boy who knows.