How to Use risk in a Sentence
- We feel that this product presents a significant risk to public health.
- Wearing a seatbelt greatly reduces the risk of injury or death in a car accident.
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What about the risk of in-flight fires from rechargeable devices?
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
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Asked by reporters about prospects for a strike that had yet to be declared, Biden tried to play down the risk.
—Josh Boak, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
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That can lower your risk and ride out the market’s inevitable ups and downs.
—Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023
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Nowhere is the solar boom — and the adjustment risks — clearer than in the Netherlands.
—William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
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There has been a risk for severe weather in some part of the state every day since Sunday.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 15 June 2023
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In addition to the risk for severe storms, flash flooding will be a concern across parts of the Plains, as well as the Southeast.
—Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 12 June 2023
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Teams who fall behind risk losing their players to the zombie horde.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
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However, her plan goes awry, putting citizens at risk and the pups in its path.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
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The highest risk of showers in greater Boston is likely between 5pm and 9 pm from west to east.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
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What is causing the tornado risk A cold front pushing east is causing the storms.
—Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2024
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Adults can be at risk in lakes or open water when impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
—Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
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While carjackings are not the fault of the victim, knowing tips on how to prevent them can help put a person less at risk.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
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But there is a risk on this path: the potential waning of the personal touch so vital to the specialty.
—Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
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And that love is not love without detail, without risk, without a touch of madness.
—Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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However, our research shows that farm parents are highly aware of the risks.
—Florence Becot, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
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The move to label more Americans as having Alzheimer’s comes amid a decades-long decline in the risk of dementia.
—Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
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Tanks and troops have been awaiting orders at the Gaza border as Israel has stepped up airstrikes in order to reduce the risk to troops in the coming stages.
—Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
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The bottom line: Staying inside all day doesn’t fully shield you from the risks of UV exposure.
—Cathryne Keller, SELF, 18 Jan. 2024
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There is also a risk for flash flooding at all locations.
—Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 20 July 2023
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The perception was that Netflix was willing to let artists take risks because all shows had a place at the streamer in its race for more subscribers.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
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The advisers were asked to vote on whether people were likely to use the tablet properly so that the benefits would exceed the risks.
—Carma Hassan, CNN, 10 May 2023
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Both problems demonstrate the risks of introducing AI to a minefield of the most human fears and passions.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
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There will also be risks for isolated severe storms on Friday and Saturday in parts of the state.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 20 July 2023
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More than 25% of respondents said their jobs are at risk if the Fed continues to raise rates, and 44% are upset about prospects of more rate increases.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
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Airspace across the Middle East are littered with risks and complexities.
—Olivia Poh, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
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Look for details of the recall, assess the risk to you and members of your household, and respond accordingly.
—Cathy Cassata, Health, 30 Sep. 2023
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Dallas county ranked as number 1 for the most at risk and Tarrant county ranked at number three.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
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There's evidence that eating cabbage might help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 13 Apr. 2024
- The company is risking the loss of millions of dollars.
- I'm not willing to risk getting lost. I'm going to buy a map.
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None of us are suited to sending a child to risk his life.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
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And so, do those willing to risk their lives to support her.
—ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
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Five days is not a lot of time, so don't dwell and risk your faves running out of stock.
—Sarah Han, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
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Jude has no choice but to risk her life in order to save her sisters as well as the whole of Faerie.
—Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 July 2023
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Could not risk having the daughter tell the husband, and how annoyed the husband would be, or worse.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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Late last year, U.S. diplomats warned that the shipping attacks risked scuttling the process.
—Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
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Gulf states have little incentive to risk the wrath of their publics.
—Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
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Why would the people trusted to take care of these bodies risk their careers?
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
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The second season risks a great deal by demolishing the cramped kitchen of the Beef, where much of the series was set.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
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Starbucks says the union’s actions risked putting employees in harm’s way.
—Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
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Their son was in a breech position and the doctor didn’t want to risk complications.
—Susan Young, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
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Their son was in a breech position, and the doctor didn’t want to risk complications.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
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There was no railing on the roof, so anyone who stood too close to the edge risked making a bigger headline, on First Avenue.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
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Yet the United States risks being left on the sidelines absent action from the commission.
—Maxine Joselow, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
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But the milestone also risks sounding the death knell for certain Bitcoin miners.
—David Pan, Fortune, 8 July 2023
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The crowd was so dense and rowdy that at one point, farmers and police officers appeared to risk being crushed.
—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
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So lawmakers will need to get to work, or risk a partial shutdown on their hands in January.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
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This conviction drove us to risk our careers and work long hours to realize our vision.
—Otto Berkes, Fortune, 16 June 2023
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And those people have been the target of the e-mail onslaught in recent days — a bombardment, fund-raisers say, that could risk turning them off.
—Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
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This would serve the same purpose of providing a moral compass without risking the career of the friend’s nanny.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 July 2023
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The air currents churned up by the whirling blades risked weakening the only cable preventing the cable car from crashing to the bottom of the river canyon.
—Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
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Many grocery clerks, nurses, meat-packers, and others were now earning less than the laid off—and risking their health and lives for the privilege.
—Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
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While hundreds of people were risking their lives crossing illegally to the West, Biermann’s heart pined for the East.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 7 July 2023
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Who else has used the can opener only to fish out the top from the inside afterward, risking a serious slice and stitches to the fingers?
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
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Even without widespread social media, no one wanted to risk a Page Six leak.
—Matthew Jacobs, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2023
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Miami risks its first seven-game skid since 2008 on Monday vs. Phoenix.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2024
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Forget risking frostbite just for some fresh air and vitamin D, right?
—Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
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If a filer forgoes an extension and files late, the person risks additional fees for the tardy submission.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2024
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