How to Use wild card in a Sentence

wild card

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  • The joker is a wild card.
  • The team made it into the play-offs as the wild card.
  • Taxes are the wild card in this election.
  • So the winner of that game, on the home field of the better of the two, goes to the home field of the best wild card.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Woods Hole This one is a bit of a wild card for a list of Cape Cod towns.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And to me, that is the really big wild card in this race.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The first playoff race has always been a bit of a wild card.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In short, if Hunter isn’t there, Auburn’s running back room is full of wild cards.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Angels would have been delighted to win a wild card.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Two wild cards have been added since Seidler bought into the team.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And the Colts, while needing a miracle, are still battling for a wild card spot in the AFC.
    — Dallas News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The 24-year old entered this week’s San Diego Open as a wild card entry ranked No. 93.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The Phillies went on to win the game against the New York Mets 5-2, bringing the team one step closer to clinching a wild card berth in the playoffs.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • No, this wasn’t as bad as the 47-17 thumping the Bills put on New England in last season’s wild card game.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That kind of offense barely beat the Rays in last weekend’s two-game wild card sweep.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And then there’s perhaps the biggest wild card of all for Democrats: Hill Harper.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • Yet the risk is rising that Iran will soon become one of the world’s most dangerous wild cards.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 23 June 2023
  • The Rangers own the two-team tiebreaker with Toronto for a wild card spot, lead Seattle and would lose out to Houston.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Seattle has lost four of its last five games and sits just outside the final NFC wild card spot.
    — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The Steelers need a win and losses from the Dolphins and Patriots to lock up that last wild card spot.
    — cleveland, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The best-of-three AL and NL wild card playoffs will begin with all four series playing on the same days.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Blue Jays reached the playoffs this season, falling to Seattle in a wild card series.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Besides, Staley’s current team still has a shot at a wild card.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This class is going to have some wildcards and one of the guys worth betting on is Izan Almansa.
    — Bryan Kalbrosky, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2023
  • Jared Goff has the surging Detroit Lions in contention for a wild card spot.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Seattle beat Oakland 5-0 to tie the Rangers in the wild card race, but the Rangers currently hold the tiebreaker over the Mariners for the final wild card spot.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • How far Tesla is willing to go to slash prices — and margins — remains a wild card.
    — Sean O'Kane, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The neighborhood is a wild card, and moving there is bound to be expensive.
    — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Winning as a wild card team with a great quarterback, a lot of the same components here.
    — Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Castillo gets a wild card in and could surprise a bit, perhaps getting a win in group play.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023

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