parlay

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And I think it serves very little purpose to focus just exclusively on ultimately trying to find and parlay blame on that.

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  1. transitive verb To bet (an original wager and its winnings) on a subsequent event.
  2. transitive verb To maneuver (an asset) to great advantage: parlayed some small investments into a large fortune.
  3. noun A bet comprising the sum of a prior wager plus its winnings or a series of bets made in such a manner.

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  • No Betty Short, no Lorna Martilkova, no _Slave Girls from Hell_ Egyptian backdrop or tie-in to Duke Wellington, but a parlay -- whips to the coroner's "light lash marks" -- that was enough to nail Johnny Vogel as Dahlia suspect number one. —  White Jazz
  • And I think it serves very little purpose to focus just exclusively on ultimately trying to find and parlay blame on that. —  CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009
  • A lot of people are unhappy with the way that she has run this marriage with -- how she sees the role of a wife, the role of a woman and perhaps even the fact that she was able to parlay her celebrity as a first lady into a Senate seat from New York. —  CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2003
  • But she wanted to sort of parlay, I ` m guessing, the focus that would be on her and her baby and stuff like that, at least try to get people to also pay attention to what ` s going on with refugees. —  CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2006
  • Since this one means to parlay, it follows it must be Nieroda. " —  The Swordbearer
 

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  1. Alteration of paroli, staking of double the sum staked before in faro, from French, from obsolete Italian, probably from Italian parare, to place a bet, from Latin parāre, to prepare; see pare.
 

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/ˈpɑrlei/
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