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When Silla and Murray opened the floor to questions, kids took turns raising their hands and sharing the problems they had been gaming out in their heads.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

The California resident had been gaming eight hours a day.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2011

Long before Panetta ordered General William McRaven, head of the Joint Special Forces Command, to undertake the mission at 1:22 p.m. on Friday, the CIA had been gaming out how to structure the raid.

From Time • May 3, 2011

He had been gaming too, and had lost all his money, and was now in debt for his board, and wholly destitute.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

There had been gaming debts, and carriage-builders' accounts, money lost to Heaven knows whom.

From Gobseck by Marriage, Ellen