as in gamble
a risky undertaking
there are almost no sure bets in the movie business—almost everything is a crapshoot
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Recent Examples of crapshoot
If Tampa is running away with its game, this will be more of a crapshoot.
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Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
Being Too Specific About Your Travel Dates Booking plane tickets with points or miles can be a total crapshoot.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2024
Logan Webb is giving the team six, but everyone else is a crapshoot.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Baseball’s draft is the ultimate crapshoot, but this goes beyond front office ineptitude.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
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Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
Being Too Specific About Your Travel Dates Booking plane tickets with points or miles can be a total crapshoot.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2024
Logan Webb is giving the team six, but everyone else is a crapshoot.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Baseball’s draft is the ultimate crapshoot, but this goes beyond front office ineptitude.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for crapshoot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crapshoot
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Whatever the game-plan was, the Kursk offensive was a gamble.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But in many ways, the benefits to workers have remained a gamble while for farmers they're guaranteed.Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
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Pipeline & Deal Updates Venture Capital: Biotech venture fund Jupiter Bioventures closed a $70 million initial financing, and Initiate Ventures, focused on early-stage health tech and life sciences companies, closed a $45 million fund.Alex Knapp, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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The network originally launched in 1996 as a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC, which is how executives arrived at its letters.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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While the clearest above-water path for the report’s release is by agreeing to a majority vote by the Ethics Committee, there is also speculation that any single member could offer a privileged resolution on the House floor to force an up-or-down vote on its disclosure.John Parkinson, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Conspiracy theories and speculation swirled on social media.Eric Larsen, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2024
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“Crapshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapshoot. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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