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Sentence examples for wager from inspiring English sources

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wager

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To bet something; to put it up as collateral

  • I'd wager my boots on it.
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The word 'wager' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when referring to a gamble or a risk where something of value is staked on an uncertain outcome. Example sentence: She made a wager that she would be able to run a mile in under five minutes.

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I had a wager with another critic that the film would get an 18 rating.

Clearly, not all men are like cliches from Nuts magazine and want women in skintight clothes, but I would wager that most men prefer it when women wear clothes that fit them as opposed to shapeless sacks.

But, like any pragmatic optimist with a betting account, he would rather wager on the future than rue the past.

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Even if foreign capital is not a big part of the wager, the odds are that India will embrace modern retailing.

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However, the wager is commonly used in modern-day logic and statistics courses as a famous example of faulty reasoning chiefly for its use of equal probabilities for each possibility, though there are several other problems with it including the fact that it could be used as proof for any god.

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