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Recent Examples of handicapper
Derby: Expert handicapper Ed DeRosa is a big proponent that winning money at the Kentucky Derby is more important than picking the winner.
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Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Mid-year is also a time for market handicappers to update their best guesses on where things go from here.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 June 2025
Several other pros hinted at the same notion that an 18 handicapper could not possibly finish 18 at Oakmont, at least not with the allotted dozen balls.
—Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Respected handicappers and professional bettors have taken an interest in the Vikings, who are back to a -1 to -1.5 point favorite.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Mid-year is also a time for market handicappers to update their best guesses on where things go from here.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 June 2025
Several other pros hinted at the same notion that an 18 handicapper could not possibly finish 18 at Oakmont, at least not with the allotted dozen balls.
—Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Respected handicappers and professional bettors have taken an interest in the Vikings, who are back to a -1 to -1.5 point favorite.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handicapper
Noun
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As part of the scheme, each senior agent bookmaker kept a percentage of profits from bookmakers in the organization below them, as well as from their own book of bettors that placed bets directly with the senior agent.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Flanagan remembers walking into a bookmaker’s shop in Cardiff to ask what the odds were for the game.—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Hedge funds and large speculators are shorting the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, at rates not seen in three years in a bet the calm will last.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
31 Aug. 2025
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And then a lot of the speculators bought up hoards of blighted property or vacant property, and many of them are still holding onto it now.—
Marisa Peñaloza,
NPR,
26 Aug. 2025
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The data supports why oddsmakers continue to tilt the line toward the Buckeyes when playing at the Horseshoe.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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So would your vote go to Doherty, as the oddsmakers predict?—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
28 Aug. 2025
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Noted tipster Tarun Vats warns that Samsung is falling behind schedule.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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An anonymous tipster called police to say the bandits were trying to sell their loot less than a mile away, and gave the cops Hussein’s Instagram handle, according to court filings.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
12 Aug. 2025
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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
Eric Stafford,
Car and Driver,
19 Feb. 2021
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“Handicapper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handicapper. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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