risk
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For a brief time, he went to the gym without contacts or glasses, intentionally blurring his vision to reduce the risk of temptation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
A former OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device at the company's San Francisco offices was ordered held without bail Monday after a federal judge deemed him a flight risk.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
I love the strange emotion in these songs — the feeling that you might as well say what you want because the only thing more embarrassing than taking a risk is not taking one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Having a sibling or parent who has been diagnosed with blood clots can raise someone’s risk, but more than often than not the cause of blood clots has nothing to do with genetics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Jemma won’t risk revealing anyone’s name in case our letters get opened. So we’re using a secret code. Some folks call it a cipher. We’re protecting the innocent.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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The debris also posed no radiation or toxicity risks, he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, oil regained momentum amid continued concerns over supply disruption risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Challenges to adopting these designer crops include regulatory hurdles, public wariness of gene editing, high technology costs and unknown risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
That raises an important question: Is the rest of the market complacent in the face of looming risks that could drive borrowing costs even higher than they already are?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Do extremely well in what they enjoy doing and take risks in areas, but do not seem to like taking risks themselves.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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She said China risked missing its official target for the year, spurring a recent roll-out of mortgage subsidies for certain home purchases and support for infrastructure investment.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
The expert warned that the country of around 50 million people risked becoming "a society of inheritors" in which home ownership depends on parents passing property to their children.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The mistakes risked bleeding into budgets for years to come.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Russell named multiple constitutional limitations, but Shanmugam still claimed on rebuttal that there was “no limit,” and that they risked lawsuits from at least “90,000 municipalities.”
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
It had always seemed unfathomable to her, choosing a career where all you did was put yourself out in front of hundreds or thousands of people and risked rejection in real time.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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But the longer oil prices stay high, the more governments have to weigh cutting the subsidies, risking popular unrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In the developing world, he added, governments are being forced to make the "impossible" choice between cutting support for their poorest citizens or risking their entire development agenda.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
“He thinks L.A. should be better run and should be more multimodal ... that you should be able to ride your bike or take a walk without risking your life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
If you truly value this friendship, it’s worth risking expressing your truth to save it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
People who performed great acts of physical, moral, or spiritual courage, often risking their lives or livelihoods.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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