at risk

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The council's director of highways and regulatory services, Andrew Burton, said the recent closure was necessary "so we could monitor the bridge and ensure the extra movement we were seeing didn't put people at risk".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

But if costs continue higher for much longer, future construction projects are at risk of delays or even cancellations because they would no longer pencil out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Also on Thursday, around 2,000 Orban supporters gathered in Hungary's second largest city Debrecen, as the nationalist leader appealed to them to "not put everything at risk" and to "protect what we have achieved".

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Gilead has so tightly limited access to the drug that millions of people at risk from HIV might not get it, according to Public Citizen.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

On the other hand, trying to sail around to the other side put them at risk of being swept past the island and into the Atlantic with no landfall before Africa.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong