Steve Carell

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

American Actor

E. F. Benson

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

English Novelist

Anthony Braxton

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

Musician

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

American Scientist

Ne-Yo

Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.

American Musician

Trixie Mattel

Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together, there's not really much we can't do.

American Entertainer

Edward Zwick

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

American Director

Colson Whitehead

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

American Novelist

Sarah Pinborough

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

English Writer

A gambit involves taking a risk to gain a future advantage, often used in competitive scenarios.

Risk for Advantage

Using 'gambit' often implies a planned, strategic risk rather than a reckless move.

Calculated Risk

In business, a gambit refers to bold decisions made to outdo competitors or change the game.

Business Context

In chess, gambit specifically involves sacrificing a piece to gain a strategic edge.

Chess Sacrifice

'Gambit' originates from chess, but now it's used to discuss various strategic trade-offs.

Beyond Chess

A conversational gambit is a way to initiate dialogue or steer a discussion in a new direction.

Conversation Starter

Conversational gambits can be subtle provocations meant to elicit information or response.

Subtle Provocation

 And if you're trying to motivate technical or creative people, you can tell them they're being doubted by a bunch of suits. That's what those black sheep probably are looking for, is an opportunity to show what they can do. Pixar producer Nicole Grindle saw Brad's underdog gambit pay off.

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 wired him up dozens and dozens of times to send him to meetings with organized crime people the operation is codenamed gambit short for gambling attorney a reference to coolies taste for gambling and to the risk he's taking if found out he would

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 isn't a trick the bird was taught this keyer is a wild creature it figured out the problem without any human prompting a perfect opening gambit observations of intelligent behavior like this have brought scientists from across the world

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 and devised a clever gambit. Medea offered Talos a she claimed that she could make Talos immortal in exchange for removing the bolt. Medea's promise resonated deep within his core. Unaware of his own mechanical nature,