risky thing
Example Sentences
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“It would be a really risky thing to do,” Schnur said, pointing to the chance he’d lose the support of Black voters if he went back on that 2021 promise.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
But that's obviously just superstition, and it really works in the other direction: To not talk about something is the risky thing, it's to endow it with more power and mystery than it should have.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2022
“This is a very risky thing to try to do,” Mr. Johnson said.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2020
“So they have to move early, even though that’s quite a risky thing for them.”
From Reuters • Dec. 5, 2018
Yet it was a risky thing to do.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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