Similar words: take steps, take shape, take stock, take stock of, make a mistake, take seriously, it takes all sorts, stake. Meaning: [steɪk] n. the money risked on a gamble.
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61. Garah, who split a pastern last year, overcame a slow start to win the Stetchworth Maiden Stakes.
62. This might well be the word processor that puts WordStar right back on the map in the word processor stakes.
63. Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
64. Of course much depends on how the current high stakes budget negotiations play out.
65. Gengold operates a total of 11 mines under management contracts and holds equity stakes in each.
66. This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread.
67. Although only fragments remain, Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes.
68. Birth rates soared and career women sank in prestige to the level of drop-outs in the great breeding stakes.
69. You thought you'd play - for higher stakes than those he was offering.
70. Although the under-18s can not trade shares themselves, adults can buy stakes in collective investment funds on their behalf.
71. In the town of Pisco, 125 miles south of the capital Lima, sales of crucifixes and wooden stakes are booming.
72. So this year, to be on the safe side, she had ordered a roll of chicken wire and metal stakes.
73. As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret.
74. With stakes this high, we have not dared to tamper with the basic concept of motherhood.
75. I can only presume that Lucker has failed in the macho stakes.
76. This time the stakes are higher than ever: the very future of Moscow's most important military ally.
77. So we sat on our hands about Sally, because we thought the stakes were higher than the National Enquirer.
78. The higher stakes have increased the temptation to overload the inflatable speedboats, called Zodiacs.
79. Because this year Congress is up for grabs, the stakes are higher, and the guessing is compounded.
80. The May Hill Stakes, frequently an early guide to the following year's Classics,[Sentencedict.com] is much more tricky to predict.
81. The following season, Nijinsky took the Gladness Stakes on his reappearance and then won five successive championship races.
82. Literary rivalry raised the stakes in the unfolding family romance.
83. Fan said it wants to move away from being strictly a holding company, with minority stakes in large listed companies.
84. For those smaller plant bakery companies who can not compete in these volume stakes the choice is quite clear.
85. Especially when the players themselves happily accept the high stakes for which they play,(www.Sentencedict.com) gambling with their bodies.
86. But they are aware, too, that the stakes involved in Mr Gorbachev's visit are uncommonly high.
87. She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.
88. Banks own small stakes of their own and can rally support against a bidder.
89. With £21 billion of Tessas reaching maturity this year, the stakes are high.
90. The stakes with a child under the age of eight are high for a corneal transplant, Song explains.
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