hazardous
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“This case is about what made that crisis preventable — and about accountability for families left to carry the cost of someone else’s failure to safely maintain hazardous chemicals next door to their neighborhoods.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
We are in a cycle where instant success is expected, and that has made things even more hazardous.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Thousands of people who live near a damaged hazardous chemical tank in Southern California still can’t return home, even as officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion had largely passed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The set piece is a daring, madcap, Wes Anderson-esque romp through San Francisco all the way to the Metro Designers factory in China, where worker conditions are grim and hazardous.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
And with my balance not what it should’ve been, to run across the floor felt a little hazardous.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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