treacherous
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The treacherous conditions continued for the next six hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
New Zealander Woods and her team battled two heatwaves, storms, a swarm of horseflies, and wildfires that resulted in a detour that added five kilometres and 200m of treacherous climbing to her route.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Software exposure had been the thing for investors to avoid after a treacherous start to the year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The idea is to set up a shipping container control room in a safe area, where a human can remotely control the vehicle on the last, most treacherous leg of its journey.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
For the past several days, it had been one series of treacherous rapids after another—about every fifteen minutes.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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