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The American UFO craze | Learn the English expression ‘raise the stakes’

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How to Increase the Stakes in Poker

Stakes is usually the word we use to describe how much money your betting in a game of poker, for example. When you raise the stakes on something, increase the risk or the significance of something. And the media knows exactly what they're doing when they write headlines like that. It's click bait. So that what you think as a reader is that congress is holding hearings on aliens landing on the earth, when in fact it was much less interest than that.

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