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Some of those purchases may have been partly driven by hedge funds that had betted against GameStop, trying to cover their positions, and some of those funds made bad losses.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2021

But he never saw the slightest change, nor any sign that the stranger with whom he had betted, had really begun his canal in earnest, and he looked more hopefully into the future.

From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm

The letter pledged the agent to the strictest secrecy, and directed him to back Geoffrey's opponent in the Foot-Race for a sum equal to the sum which Perry had betted on Geoffrey himself.

From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie

He had betted "square," and had ridden "square," and had run horses "square."

From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony

But he had betted over a sovereign on us, I know.”

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines