Sentence examples of "at stake" in English

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When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake. Quando una persona media invia un messaggio in una bottiglia, è solo una fantasia infantile. Quando Cristoforo Colombo invia un messaggio in una bottiglia, il destino di un intero paese è in gioco.
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