risk-taking
Example Sentences
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Zheng He, a 15th-century Chinese seafarer, visited the strait, and Marco Polo wrote about risk-taking mariners there.
"Our new 120,000-square-foot building on the Bowery signals our redoubled commitment to new art and new ideas, and to the museum as an ever-evolving site for risk-taking, collaboration and experimentation," she said.
From Barron's
Because your brother’s care is your primary long-term goal, your investments correctly reflect stability, protection against inflation and, as you age, more moderate growth rather than aggressive risk-taking.
From MarketWatch
What was life like for Scotland pre-Russell, pre the outrageous skill with hand and boot, pre the vision and the execution, the confidence and the personality that gets you off your seat and, yes, the risk-taking that can make you hide behind it at times when it goes wrong?
From BBC
Lafferty said he isn’t looking for engineers with perfect track records, as a lack of failure often indicates a lack of risk-taking.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
