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as in interests
a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something
if I invest in your business, I expect a stake in it in return
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as in funds
to provide money for
the actor staked the entire production of the film with his own money
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Recent Examples of stakes
Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
With its high stakes, vivid action and steamy romance, the novel has struck a chord with Yarros's enthusiastic fanbase.
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Janey Wetzel,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
The Federal Communications Commission must evaluate the foreign ownership stakes due to Paramount’s holding of CBS broadcast licenses.
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Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
What starts as a series that aims to subvert the heist genre at every turn – amped with thrilling life-or-death stakes, family dynamics, and explosive action – gives birth to an exploration of what drives us, sustains us, and ultimately destroys us.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Both experts highlight parallels between sports, politics, and business, emphasizing the challenge of authentic communication under high stakes.
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Roger Trapp,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Christian Pulisic said the approach doesn't change in this round and that mood around the team remains light even with the high stakes in this part of the tournament.
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ABC News,
30 June 2026
Hosted by content creator Laro Benz, the show oversees couples competing across four high-stakes rounds built around the chaos of life at home.
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Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Indeterminate tomatoes need strong stakes, cages, or trellises for support due to their continuous growth and vining habit.
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Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Ocean Casino Resort stakes its claim directly on the Atlantic City Boardwalk with views of a ferris wheel and lighthouse as though to remind you of the city’s modest beachtown origins.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
November stakes In Lake County, the positions of Clerk, Treasurer, and Sheriff — currently held by Anthony Vega, Holly Kim and John Idleburg, respectively — are all coming up for election, as well as county board positions for Districts 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19.
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Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Small towns may have the majority of oceanfront real estate, but Pensacola stakes its claim with more than 50 miles of white-sand shoreline.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
That is, until Vlad arrives and stakes a claim on her every waking thought.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
The majority stakes the largest detention initiative in American history on the possibility that … Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained—some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.
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Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
12 Feb. 2026
For the Chinese Communist Party, which stakes its claim to legitimacy on defeating Japanese invaders during World War II, that would be an unforgivable outrage.
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Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Mexicali stakes a claim to the clamato cocktail, a heady blend of vodka, clam juice and other ingredients invented in the 1960s by a bartender at the city’s Acueducto Piano Bar.
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Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
In recent years, carriage negotiations have led to temporary channel blackouts between Disney and services such as YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, highlighting the high stakes of content licensing deals.
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Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
With its high stakes, vivid action and steamy romance, the novel has struck a chord with Yarros's enthusiastic fanbase.
—
Janey Wetzel,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
The Federal Communications Commission must evaluate the foreign ownership stakes due to Paramount’s holding of CBS broadcast licenses.
—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
What starts as a series that aims to subvert the heist genre at every turn – amped with thrilling life-or-death stakes, family dynamics, and explosive action – gives birth to an exploration of what drives us, sustains us, and ultimately destroys us.
—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Both experts highlight parallels between sports, politics, and business, emphasizing the challenge of authentic communication under high stakes.
—
Roger Trapp,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Christian Pulisic said the approach doesn't change in this round and that mood around the team remains light even with the high stakes in this part of the tournament.
—
ABC News,
30 June 2026
Hosted by content creator Laro Benz, the show oversees couples competing across four high-stakes rounds built around the chaos of life at home.
—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Indeterminate tomatoes need strong stakes, cages, or trellises for support due to their continuous growth and vining habit.
—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
Verb
The Arab Republic of Egypt (1953) stakes a natural claim to the Rosetta Stone, which was commissioned in 196 BCE by a Greek-speaking pharaoh of Macedonian descent, and unearthed near Alexandria by French engineers in 1799.
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Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Ocean Casino Resort stakes its claim directly on the Atlantic City Boardwalk with views of a ferris wheel and lighthouse as though to remind you of the city’s modest beachtown origins.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
November stakes In Lake County, the positions of Clerk, Treasurer, and Sheriff — currently held by Anthony Vega, Holly Kim and John Idleburg, respectively — are all coming up for election, as well as county board positions for Districts 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19.
—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Small towns may have the majority of oceanfront real estate, but Pensacola stakes its claim with more than 50 miles of white-sand shoreline.
—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
That is, until Vlad arrives and stakes a claim on her every waking thought.
—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
The majority stakes the largest detention initiative in American history on the possibility that … Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained—some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.
—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
12 Feb. 2026
For the Chinese Communist Party, which stakes its claim to legitimacy on defeating Japanese invaders during World War II, that would be an unforgivable outrage.
—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Mexicali stakes a claim to the clamato cocktail, a heady blend of vodka, clam juice and other ingredients invented in the 1960s by a bartender at the city’s Acueducto Piano Bar.
—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stakes
Noun
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The tension between the various competing interests is handled with nuance and without taking sides, all while showing both the pitfalls and the wondrous potential of this annual spectacle.
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The resulting album, Exhale, sounds like a musical conversation, an attempt to find the overlap in their interests—and also, perhaps, to make sparks fly where their instincts clash.
Noun
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As tech stocks waver on doubts the AI boom will prove sustainable, India is emerging as a safe haven for global investors looking to hedge their bets and weather the volatility, Bloomberg wrote.
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The market is currently pricing in one 25 basis point interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve this year, though comments made by Warsh at a meeting of global central bankers this week have led to investors paring their bets monetary tightening.
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The expenses Grapes for Glioblastoma covers are deliberately different from what cancer philanthropy typically funds.
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The bipartisan reform proposal would tweak the payroll tax that funds Social Security.
Verb
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However, some state workers currently using public transit have questions about capacity, especially as declining state and federal transit funding puts a strain on transit agencies.
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That puts her in the club of four other millionaire authors on the bench – Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas.
Noun
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Against this backdrop, investor confidence in JCET has surged, with the company’s shares listed in Shanghai climbing 147 percent since the start of the year, driven by strong business growth and rising demand for advanced chip technologies.
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The leading labs are also preparing for stock market listings, and settling the question of the government's role before their shares trade would remove a major overhang for prospective investors.
Noun
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For example, a Google engineer was charged in May for allegedly using his employer’s search trend data to place wagers on the platform.
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The proposal seeks to ban wagers deemed not in the public interest or prone to manipulation through insider information.
Verb
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Read on for your June career and finances horoscope according to your zodiac sign.
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Taxes from tabs go to the state Highway User Tax Distribution Fund, which finances Minnesota’s highway system.
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“Stakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stakes. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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