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[risk] / rɪsk /




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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

"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

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

"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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