gamble
verb (used without object)
to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
were gambling
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past progressiveof gamble.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Both converged last month on Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who quit Anthropic warning that AI companies were "gambling with our lives."
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Worries over doomsday scenarios tied to increasingly powerful technology skyrocketed last week after an Anthropic employee resigned, saying AI companies were gambling with humanity’s future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Did it make perfect rational sense to have the betting regime of my youth, where a couple of American cities were gambling havens for accidental historical reasons?
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
The people steering the ship of these companies knew they were gambling on bad odds.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2022
He noted at this time that the three passions which obstructed the moral way were gambling, sensuality, and vanity.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
