How to Use at the risk of (doing something) in a Sentence

at the risk of (doing something)

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  • But none wrest the spotlight from Escola, who at the risk of hyperbole, gives one of the greatest comedic performances of the century so far.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • Will the Aztecs send a double team this time at the risk of leaving shooters open on the perimeter?
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Or maybe, at the risk of seeming too flippant, that comma should be a colon.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
  • To me, at the risk of sounding insufferable, there’s a central theme of grief in the movie.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • This could help a worsening drought affecting more than 70% of the state, but at the risk of flash flooding.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Gay men have had to be more frank with each other, at the risk of seeming preachy or alienating.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, at the risk of being hyperbolic… no one wanted this?
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Even at the risk of flying in the face of tradition, another speed or two wouldn't hurt this unit at all.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 8 July 2023
  • And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, the Court notes that several courts, based on the respective records in those cases, have found the same.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • The Vietnam War put them in an untenable spot, wanting to release a protest song but not at the risk of their crossover success.
    — cleveland, 14 July 2022
  • Wet cat food should not be left out past three hours at the risk of causing intestinal and gastric distress to indoor cats.
    — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • There was a looseness to it in the beginning because, at the risk of sounding gauche, a show like ours didn’t really exist yet.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
  • Their message to the Israeli government is clear: Eliminate the threat, even at the risk of a wider conflagration.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But—again at the risk of stating the obvious—there's a lot of data being generated.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • And at the risk of stating the obvious, dead people can’t participate in commerce at all.
    — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Kids need to trip over people and ideas, at the risk of scraping up their psyches, in order to learn how to move through the world and how to connect meaningfully with the people in it.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That conceit pays off wonderfully, forcing him to win over strangers, at the risk of rejection.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • This let the company speed up the manufacturing process — but at the risk of reducing the life span of the jetliners, Salehpour said.
    — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Schoolgirls sing in their classrooms, and women dance to the music of street musicians in public parks and on the Metro, all without the mandatory hijab and all at the risk of death.
    — Tara Grammy, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And the Rangers would be just fine with that, but he can’t get fixated on moving fast at the risk of not finishing developmental stages.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Once quick to heed US calls to open the taps and bring prices down, the kingdom is now ignoring those requests, at the risk of hurting its decades-long partnership with Washington.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • The price spikes forced the Fed to raise interest rates aggressively at the risk of plunging the world’s largest economy into recession.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But O’Connor, by virtue of her fame, has often done so in an international spotlight, even at the risk of public ridicule for her unabashed candor.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • For Bragg, this was a break with lawyerly protocol — to be talking about a potential case before seeing all the facts, at the risk of appearing biased.
    — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Demonstrating strength at the risk of losing an opportunity is the way to ensure success.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, Keir Starmer, Labour’s leader, has ruthlessly moved the party to the center since taking it over, doing so at the risk of alienating some of the party’s more left-wing supporters.
    — Josh Holder, New York Times, 24 June 2024
  • Furthermore, the Patriots are in no rush to actualize Daniels’ potential, or Maye’s, at the risk of ruining them.
    — Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2024
  • As history shows, women with unwanted pregnancies will do whatever is necessary to end them, even at the risk of their lives.
    — William Falk, The Week, 15 May 2022
  • Throughout its long history (and at the risk of sounding like Bart Simpson delivering a bad book report), Bugatti has often had a thing for contrasts.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For players unfamiliar with keyboard controls, the game can feel a bit overwhelming as the balance of movement, including precise jumping and switching to the glider requires timely input at the risk of death.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024

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