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“Mumbai is a perilous city — even its geography is in a state of flux,” Kapadia. says.

As Amsterdam grapples with controversial plans to relocate its famous brothels to an out-of-town "erotic zone", Betty Szabo's hologram offers a poignant reminder of the vulnerability of sex workers in an area that, despite a range of security measures, remains perilous.

From BBC

It’s certainly true that we would have been in a perilous situation if Vice President Kamala Harris had won by a small margin and Trump had called the results “rigged”: A few days ago, that looked like the most direct line to political violence in the election’s aftermath.

Supreme Court may be entering a particularly perilous moment.

From Slate

But there was nothing particularly perilous about age 27, the authors found — in fact, the riskiest years came before musicians turned 25.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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