risk-taker

Example Sentences

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“If you are not a risk-taker, you are not in shipping,” Prokopiou told shipping publication Tradewinds in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Newsom is more of a policy wonk, a greater risk-taker and is more willing to venture into challenging and even hostile settings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Slater, however, was a risk-taker, and aspired to be more than a factory hand.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

On the pitch, he remains Madrid's eternal risk-taker - capable of brilliance, chaos, and sometimes both in the same play.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

‘Piper McLean,’ she grumbled, ‘that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I’ve ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan