gamble
The second category of poor were those whose deviant nature was expressed both in appeareance (ruinous and presumptuous clothing) and 🌜 behaviour (gambling, squandering, fornication). From the Cambridge English Corpus
Subjects were asked to evaluate pairs of gambles of comparable expected value. 🌜 From the Cambridge English Corpus
The same considerations apply when the agent is asked for the highest price at which she 🌜 would buy the gambles. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Cricket-fighting is a sport in which two male crickets are made to 🌜 engage in a duel, and it often involves gambling. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Writing an explicit description of the expected 🌜 utility as a function of gambles is overly complicated and relies on the order of task completions. From the Cambridge 🌜 English Corpus
In a sense, all of our research and theoretical commitments are gambles, investments we hope will pay off epistemologically. 🌜 From the Cambridge English Corpus
A married man, who had risked losing his cohabiting girlfriend if he had not agreed to 🌜 marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'. From the Cambridge English Corpus
He can damage himself with either eating or 🌜 drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. From the Cambridge English Corpus
There is some evidence that the attribute that is 🌜 traded off, or gambled with, becomes salient; that is, people give more importance to this attribute. From the Cambridge English 🌜 Corpus
Throughout this note, we have assumed that gambling does not directly give rise to utility. From the Cambridge English Corpus
I 🌜 think gambling is a type of compulsive behaviour. From the Cambridge English Corpus
In the context of such gambles, it seems 🌜 unlikely that subjects would ignore the difference between 14 and eight. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Of course, when two gambles 🌜 have the same expected payoff, then an expected payoff maximising agent might use another criterion as a tie breaker. From 🌜 the Cambridge English Corpus
Responses to standard gambles: are preferences 'well constructed'? From the Cambridge English Corpus
Notable among these was gambling, 🌜 whose flexibility and familiarity accommodated many of the constraints of clandestine prison activities. From the Cambridge English Corpus
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