risky business
Example Sentences
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The retailer’s executive chairman, Marcus Lemonis, said in August that the state is over-regulated, expensive and creates a risky business environment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Encouraging owners of ghost ships to sell them for scrap would provide some revenue as they exit a decidedly risky business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
In fact, it was an expensive and risky business still—as the horrific loss of the Challenger shuttle and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, demonstrated all too vividly.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
But its rich returns are paltry compared with those of MicroStrategy, a company dedicated to a risky business: buying Bitcoin with money provided by you and other shareholders.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024
It is a strange and risky business in which the makers never quite know what they are making until they have actually made it.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
