hazard
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Without the hazard ratio, along with other data, it is “difficult to assess the magnitude, durability and commercial relevance of benefit in adjuvant melanoma,” Citi’s Geoff Meacham told investors in August.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration cleared the 250-foot structure Friday, finding it would not pose a substantial hazard to aircraft using nearby Reagan National Airport.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Exposing cells directly to a chemical can reveal a potential hazard, but it does not, by itself, show whether eating a food exposes human tissues to enough of that chemical to cause the same damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Italy is the second race this year to be declared a heat hazard.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The moisture ate away at the wooden stairs leading up to the house, and climbing them became a daily hazard.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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Nonstop swells combined with a “super” El Niño phenomenon have washed away truckloads of sand from Newport Beach and other parts of the California coast, exposing hazards buried a century ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
These can include exercise, assessment of hazards that could contribute to falls, and education tailored to a person's individual risk.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
In fact, substituting toys for all hazards and unwanted behaviors are excellent protective measures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
AI models are increasingly used in weather and climate forecasting and for early detection of natural hazards.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
He didn’t often get compliments on his taste—one of the inherent hazards of wearing a dragon necklace.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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The assumption is that Brady surely repents of the decision to return and that he is “a shell of himself,” as commentator Rex Ryan hazarded, and indeed he seems thin to the point of sickness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
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
“If a black cat crosses your path, you’ll have bad luck,” hazarded Tendai.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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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
The Navy confirmed that Mays was the sailor charged Thursday with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 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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