But for many, free agency is a high-stakes gamble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Wanted: Think Web] Reference

She made thinking about movies a joyous, high-stakes game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transition: Dancer In The Darkness] Reference

In the high-stakes game he's playing now, that might prove just fast enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wal-Mart Of The Sky] Reference

With viewership far from certain, the mobile-TV business is a high-stakes game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gadgets: Getting the Small Picture] Reference

But Allen was more improvisational than anyone in high-stakes television is today.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Father Of Late Night] Reference

Don't expect northern Iraq to become a hotbed for high-stakes deals right away, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Either way, the entire PC industry will need to learn from Dell's high-stakes retooling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shifting Gears at Dell] Reference

The address, scheduled for this Friday at the Reagan Library, has become a high-stakes event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Goes Back To School] Reference

But don't let bad marketing make such a high-stakes issue seem inaccessible, or even irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilana Ross: "Excuse Me, What Do You Mean by 'Net Neutrality?'" A Question We Shouldn't Be Afraid to Ask] Reference

Such nervousness might be expected to slow the march of high science and high-stakes dealmaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Tech Harvests] Reference

"By Jan. 20, friendships, alliances and relationships will be destroyed by this high-stakes game.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond ‘Showgirls and Slot Machines’] Reference

A lame-duck prez's high-stakes summit makes the CW wonder what the respective candidates would do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putin On The Ritz Edition] Reference

For the Europeans, the last three years have been a high-stakes poker game -- mostly one of bluff.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Shame] Reference

Orchestras have become such high-ticket high-stakes items that they must move cautiously to survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem] Reference

In short, a high-stakes industry rose from the rubble of the low-risk, low-return film business of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blockbuster Nation] Reference

One person trying to keep the peace in this high-stakes political game is U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baghdad’s Man in the Middle] Reference

And, oh yes, their success in the high-stakes, high-tech steeplechase now getting underway around the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bigger, Better, Brighter] Reference

He captures the venal, high-stakes world of pro sports with deadly wit and an ex-journalist's sense of detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jets And The Sharks] Reference

Schock shot down some season favorites and named the ever-suave Angelo Sosa winner of the high-stakes quickfire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Schock On 'Top Chef': Congressman Challenges Contestants To Make Lobbyist-Safe Meals (VIDEO)] Reference

Revenue picked up after the end of the soccer World Cup, which analysts said had suppressed high-stakes gambling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macau Gambling Revenue Jumps] Reference

"GB84's" only saving grace is a noir mood that captures the high-stakes brutality, and finality, of the confrontation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snap Judgment] Reference

As NATO prepares for its summit next month in Bucharest, European governments are facing a high-stakes game of chicken.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATO Future: The Wimps And The Warriors] Reference

Co. is about to run a high-stakes test of this by promoting a high-tech, six-cylinder engine in its best-selling vehicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ford's New Pickup Line: Like My Tough V-6?] Reference

He first came to widespread notice as an aide to Richard Holbrooke in the high-wire, high-stakes diplomacy in Bosnia in 1995-97.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Far, So Fast] Reference

The fancy Riviera Country Club, where O.J. once occupied center stage in high-stakes golf and gin-rummy games, is a fond memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [O.J. Family Values] Reference

He is also intermittently rowdy, given to high-stakes poker and the ingestion of "" amber-colored liquids, '' to use his own euphemism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lovely Donnybrook] Reference

Since there are at least a dozen declared contenders, and many more to come, a high-stakes, high-cost game of musical chairs is underway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surfers, Step Right Up!] Reference

"This is a much more high-stakes recession," says Callan, because large classes of kids are at risk of being shut out of higher education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuition: Why It Costs So Much] Reference

If this seems like chaos to Bigelow, it's hard to understand why she'd choose the sort of high-stakes filmmaking she's made as her career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathryn Bigelow: Road Warrior] Reference

In the high-stakes, low-cholesterol battle of the sky chefs, the winner will bring home the bacon -- even if it comes with a cheese omelet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lighter Than Airline Load] Reference

Still, in the echo chamber of competitive high schools, where college-search talk is incessant, the test takes on an inevitable high-stakes aura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Else to Worry About] Reference

Obama and his advisors are still looking at Afghanistan as a problem to be solved, or a high-stakes poker match, a deadly game of raises and bluffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Astore: What WikiLeaks Reveals: We're Playing the Fool in Afghanistan] Reference

What I'm concerned with are the high-stakes lies, lies that are intended to either hurt another person or bolster one's own image at the expense of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Lying: An Interview With 'Liespotting' Author Pamela Meyer] Reference

In recent months a near hysteria has enveloped Kashagan, perhaps the richest prize of this decade's high-stakes competition for Caspian oil and natural gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Needs A Pipeline?] Reference

Debate over data access will probably be just one of several high-stakes disagreements that BP and Transocean have while sorting out responsibility for the spill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transocean Accuses BP of Withholding Spill Data] Reference

Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid J. Schar closed the high-stakes two-month trial with a review of the most damning evidence from witnesses and secretly recorded audiotapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prosecution and defense close with disagreement on Blagojevich's intelligence] Reference

I had no incisive insights to offer future historians about how the president handled international crises or political pressures during high-stakes policymaking sessions.    From Wordnik.com.  [History In The Making] Reference