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hazard

[haz-erd] / ˈhæz ərd /




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Landslides are a recurring hazard in Ethiopia during the country's main rainy season, which typically runs from June to August.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

"You have to do hazard reduction burning to get the fuel level down, so that the fire cannot develop an intensity beyond what we are capable of dealing with," Fenwick says.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

A beach hazard statement is in effect through Wednesday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Of course, the hazard of Pogacar’s attacking is that he can drag along a strong nemesis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

What the others aimed to do with their food, I wouldn’t hazard to guess.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"But when you come down, come and be safe. Swim near an open lifeguard tower, check in with that lifeguard for current ocean conditions and what's going on in that area as far as hazards."

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Manufacturers and their software partners use these internet-connected systems to help drivers—say, by warning about road hazards ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Cyclospora is resistant to chemical disinfection, and using these products could introduce other hazards.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

If he had amassed the same number of records, skateboard decks or vintage gaming consoles — all fire hazards — would he have gotten the same eviction warning?

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

He could barely remember it now, of course—one of the hazards of so very long a life.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

I hazarded a number of guesses as to where the movement, and more importantly the reaction to it, was headed.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2022

Edward Holmes does not like making predictions, but last year he hazarded a few.

From Science Magazine Aug. 19, 2021

He hazarded that the onscreen manhunt was between seventy and eighty per cent as intense as the real thing.

From The New Yorker Feb. 15, 2017

The commissioner hazarded that rare dalliance with honesty back in 2012, and his motive seemed clear.

From Washington Post Aug. 19, 2016

Then I tossed a strand over my shoulder and hazarded a look at his table.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

By 1858, the famous Butterfield stagecoaches were ferrying the mail through the cut over the pass, hazarding a vertiginous angle comparable with San Francisco’s Lombard Street, without the switchbacks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Borinsky invites guesses; the problem is that we might not care enough for any of the people or ideas onstage to bother hazarding them.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2023

Yet nowhere in the Federalist essays do any of the authors explain why liberty is so valuable that it is worth hazarding the consequences of human nature.

From Washington Times Jan. 4, 2022

In August, Seaman Apprentice Ryan Mays was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel.

From Seattle Times Oct. 19, 2021

I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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