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The word "gambling" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to betting money or something of value on the outcome of an event, game, or another type of gamble. For example: "I was nervous to try gambling, but I ended up winning big!"
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gambling
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Present participle of gamble
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"I'm struggling to find a decent stats site, any variation of googling throws up gambling sites, which I need to steer clear of... ...... Eberhard Spohd has the following for what happens if every match finishes 0-0.
In other words, the government thought it was on to a sure money-maker by introducing fees; in fact, because it could not control all the variables of the market, it was gambling with the nation's money and looks set to lose spectacularly.
Not necessarily about drink or drugs – it could be about anything: peer pressure, girlfriends, family, gambling.
Such was the Kenyan's self-confidence he thought nothing of gambling the farm on breaking his record, bringing the best out of his beaten opponents in the process.
But the EU's leaders are gambling, crossing their fingers and praying for good fortune.
Patel says that unless you use websites that are registered pharmacies (usually with bricks-and-mortar premises too), with a phone number so you can speak to a pharmacist, and ones that ask for a prescription, then you are gambling with your health.
A grand unravelling Europe's Tory nightmare Reprints Related items The Austrian election: Another grand coalition?Oct 5th 2006In provoking an early election, Mr Molterer is gambling that voters will prefer his promise of responsible government to the populist message of the Social Democrats.
But close to 10,000 people are barred for life from gambling on the riverboats.
Nonetheless, gambling that five-year-olds do not read The Economist closely, your correspondent went to Orlando, strictly for research, on a warm day in January.The park is overwhelming.
For decades it has thrived in a legal grey zone, just about dodging an official ban on gambling.
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The judge said he had no doubt that, if Mrs Al-Daher had been refused permission to carry on gambling at the Ritz casino, she "would have been eager and inclined to gamble at other casinos thereafter, and very probably during her stay in London during the days or weeks after 3 April 2012".
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