Wild Card

Wild card may refer to:

  • Wild card (card games), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
  • Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play
  • Wild card (foresight), low-probability, high-impact events

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Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or card:

    “This wild star—it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes,... I spoke it ... into birth.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

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    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)