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• n  the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
• n  any outstanding award

• Winslet hit the jackpot on her very first film audition, winning a costarring role in director Peter Jackson's breakthrough feature as a teenaged girl whose obsessive fantasy life .
• Biggest jackpot thus far, a three-weeker: $88.
• Scarce and expensive drugs are the potential jackpot payoffs of pharmaceutical chemistry.

• pot
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News & Articles

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• Powerball jackpot increases to $127M
  Saturday's Powerball jackpot has grown to $127 million. No one has matched all six numbers since the drawing on June 1.
  June 21, 2013 - CBS 46 News Atlanta
• Megawatty EuroMillions jackpot up for the win
  UK -- Tonight's draw in the EuroMillions jackpot is worth £141million, The Daily Telegraph reported. This marks the third largest jackpot in its history, the report said.
  June 21, 2013 - Rolling Good Times
• Saturday Powerball Jackpot Now Up to $127 Million
  Guess what? Since no one matched all six numbers in Wednesday night’s POWERBALL jackpot, it just keeps on growing – up to an impressive $127 million for tomorrow night’s draw. This marks the second time since California joined the multi-state game back in April that the jackpot amount has eclipsed the $100 million mark.
  June 21, 2013 - KSEE 24 Fresno

Quotes

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• Karen Tandy in Washington Post
  This is like law enforcement hitting the ultimate jackpot,Tandy said. "But luck had nothing to do with this windfall."
• Gete Wami in USA Today
  I want to run New York, and I want to win the jackpot,Wami said.
• Teresa Roncon in CTV.ca
  There was definitely a lot of attention paid to this jackpot,Roncon said. "These are tough economic times and people were certainly looking for something a little escapist, and that's what they get with a lottery."