bookmaker

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Recent Examples of bookmaker But as the season unfolded, injuries, managerial shake-ups, and high-profile transfers significantly altered the dynamics, leaving the defending champions, their challengers, and even the bookmakers struggling to keep up. Julia Ranney, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Still, even with the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner absent, Argentina are favoured by the bookmakers to win this game. Sam Tighe, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025 But betting on March Madness is different and the odds, spread and totals can move quickly as bookmakers released betting lines for the next group of games as teams win and advance through the brakets. Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 From 2017 to 2020, Greer allegedly used the company’s bank accounts to pay for personal expenses, including payments to bookmakers Wayne Joseph Nix and Ken Arsenian to cover sports gambling losses, and to purchase a 2021 Mercedes-Benz automobile, court papers show. City News Service, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookmaker
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Noun
  • In another, a bookseller becomes stuck in a time loop.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Spearman said he’s learned from his first run as a bookseller.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of working with the best of the best, Haney now instructs amateur players of all ages and abilities, ranging from low handicappers to the dreamer who just wants to break 90.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Top political handicappers tweak their predictions Los Tigres del Norte has been outspoken in championing the rights of Latinos and immigrants living in the United States.
    Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Crime Stoppers pays tipsters cash rewards of up to $5,000 for their tips.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Only Bass is currently running for mayor in 2026, but an entity is currently polling on all four, per a screenshot of the poll that a tipster sent us.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Although the Bucks have not been as strong on the road, the oddsmakers love their chance of coming out on top.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Due to the lack of upsets, Johnny Avello, an oddsmaker at DraftKings, said the bettor has done will this year due to a popular trend.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yet this London gathering demonstrated a stark separation between price speculators and practical users.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • No war materialized, so there was more speculation: No gangster would have dared to kill Lansky’s stepson, the speculators said.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025

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