risk
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A "damning" report found that the shortfall is double the advertised vacancies, "putting patients at risk".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Participants who stayed on GLP-1 treatment for two years or two-and-a-half years before stopping for the rest of the study also saw meaningful reductions in risk, at 7% and 15%, respectively.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
That’s likely a relief for crypto bulls, but the comeback might say less about bitcoin’s revival than a marketwide return of risk appetite — from chip and software names to meme stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Investors’ move to take on more risk even extended to bitcoin, which continued a recent price run-up to reach roughly $86,000 for the first time since January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
It was a future he wanted, and maybe that meant he’d have to take the risk, show people who he was, which included who he had been.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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"We need to minimize risks and simplify a potential application in humans," he says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Meanwhile, the buttering up risks making Mr. Trump look like a chump if the Chinese don’t give him something in return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Here, Szor and Abraham quietly demonstrate the lengths and risks of their allyship, pitting their relatively comfortable upbringing in Israel against their fervent quest to unlearn a propagandistic way of living.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
McHugh said it’s “not that these risks have all gone away” but rather that “the surprise factor has run its course.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
What Hamilton seemed to see in Burr, then, was a man very much like himself in several respects: ambitious, energetic, possessing an instinctive strategic antenna and a willingness to take political risks.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Like the groves and gardens, houses built foolhardily near the dry summertime river risked being pulled off their foundations and washed away by the winter torrents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The government also said giving students long-term predictions of how much they might ultimately repay risked being "misleading" because of "limited" accuracy.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
She knew kids risked being sent home when classes resumed in late August — a scenario that would disrupt not just their learning but create a logistical nightmare for working families.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Advertisers boosted their back-to-school marketing on TikTok this summer as the channel became a bigger commerce channel and retail media risked saturation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Then he counted off a thousand steps before he risked lifting his head.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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"Is it worth risking your life for these ops?" asks the Sunday People, leading on a campaign from a grieving father whose daughter died in Turkey after complications from surgery.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
“We are risking losing many more people to Ebola.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
As those cost buffers fade, manufacturers may have to choose between raising prices, accepting lower profit margins, or risking weaker demand, it adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The wildfires have destroyed part of the habitat of hundreds of orangutans and risking the survival of the species.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
He was certain Amanda had to be restrained from risking her life to aid him.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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