Thesaurus results for BETTORS

bettors

noun

variants or betters

plural of bettor

as in gamblers

one that bets (as on the outcome of a contest or sports event) bettors on the horse race have to place their bets at least 20 minutes before the start of the race

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Recent Examples of bettors An ex-trader explained that if bettors exhibited potential signs of compulsive gambling, such as frenetically emptying and reﬁlling their account balance, the trader would check if RG wanted to reach out to make sure the customer was OK. —

Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026 What’s telling, however, is that as of last week, bettors on prediction market Kalshi an 85% chance that Powell is out as Fed governor before August. —

Matt Egan, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026 Laster allegedly sold this information to two betters for about $100,000. —

Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026 Still, American bettors have found an easy work-around in the digital trickery of VPNs, or virtual private networks. —

Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026 Though early, most members of both parties (and online bettors) expect Democrats to take the House next November. —

Ben Smith, semafor.com, 5 Jan. 2026 However, though these checks may be appealing to the average person, the the plan faces longshot odds from bettors, logistical hurdles in Congress and angst from some economists. —

Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 23 Dec. 2025 In at least once instance, authorities said Rozier feigned injury to exit a game early, helping bettors who wagered on him failing to make various statistical benchmarks in that contest. —

David K. Li, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025 Just like at sportsbooks, prediction market parlays are an overwhelmingly losing proposition for retail bettors. —

Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bettors

gamblers

Noun

There’s nothing new in this, and gamblers have long accepted this distortion as the cost of wagering.

— Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
In this collection of short stories, there is a story as syllabus, a board game, middle school gamblers, generous dead neighbors, and a professional gynecology patient.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026