downside
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A reading of the U.S. labor market from The Conference Board fell slightly in May, highlighting potential downside risks to the labor market, a gauge of employment showed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
But there’s an inevitable downside to anything that’s partially made of liquid dinosaur bones.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
However, the team discovered that this strategy may come with a significant downside.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
And there’s an “asymmetric risk” that the big move will be to the downside, Adam Turnquist, chief technical strategist at LPL Financial, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
They often approached visitors as if they might be deities, possibly calculating, in the spirit of Pascal's wager, that the downside of an erroneous attribution of celestial power was minimal.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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