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stake

noun as in pole

noun as in bet, wager

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noun as in share, investment

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The latest iteration of that is TikTok’s deal with Oracle that will reportedly set up a new US entity to house the short video app, with the US software giant taking a minority stake and managing user data.

From Quartz

If the edited embryos result in a baby, his or her offspring will also inherit the edited DNA—thus dramatically raising the stakes.

When the stakes are high, and the gatekeepers of reproduction and survival are other minds, competition and manipulation become central.

So fintech startups that sell fractional stakes in those assets have surged during the pandemic.

From Fortune

It’s really helped lay the table stakes of what we believe in and care about.

From Fortune

We can, due to the critical issues at stake, also go one more step and impose an embargo.

Think about it: Dodd-Frank was explicitly passed to drive a stake through the heart of the implicit concept of “too big to fail.”

At stake is not just the 21 photos that were originally ordered to be released.

Then as now, we all are at stake, and sooner or later, we all must make a stand.

Paul has consistently used Benghazi as a device to stake out high ground on foreign policy.

On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

The Duke, as well as his friend, had much at stake in bringing this part of his negociation to bear.

I watched her narrowly, and would stake my life on it she is only the more dangerous for being the less open.

It would not take two minutes to convert him from the inquisitor to the martyr at the stake.

And the quail, perched on the fence-stake, would she address herself to us or to Mr. Robert White down in the meadow?

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On this page you'll find 140 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stake, such as: pale, paling, picket, post, rod, and spike.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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