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These may be extreme examples, but the lesson here is that positioning science as the servant of ideology is perilous.

Raducanu saved seven break points across the fourth and eight games, finding first serves when she needed them in the most perilous moments, then striking clinically to secure another encouraging victory.

From BBC

This deeply perilous time requires realism — but not fatalism.

From Salon

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

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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