risky business
Example Sentences
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But loading up on tens of billions of dollars in more debt is risky business.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Somewhere along the way, I absorbed the belief that it was risky business.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
The retailer’s executive chairman, Marcus Lemonis, said in August that the state is over-regulated, expensive and creates a risky business environment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
In fact, it was an expensive and risky business still—as the horrific loss of the Challenger shuttle and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, demonstrated all too vividly.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
It is a strange and risky business in which the makers never quite know what they are making until they have actually made it.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
