precipice
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Oxford academic Toby Ord spent close to a decade trying to quantify the risks of human extinction due to various causes, and summarized the results in a book aptly titled "The Precipice."
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022
Mental health activist and author of "The Precipice of Mental Health: Becoming Your Own Safe Space," Achea Redd recommends finding time to do something creative or spending time outside.
From Fox News • Feb. 25, 2022
The two escapees were captured on Mount Precipice, a Christian holy site near the Arab city of Nazareth, in northern Israel, the spokeswoman said in a statement.
From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2021
But as the moral philosopher Toby Ord argues in his new book, The Precipice, we are much less adept at anticipating potential catastrophes that have no precedent in living memory.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2020
Precipice, pres′i-pis, n. a very steep place: any steep descent: a perpendicular bank or cliff.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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