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The smoke hazard has triggered the evacuation of two Belgian villages, whose residents were still under instruction to stay away.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Bagehot would recognize the goal: Reduce the encouragement to take risk, known as moral hazard, that offering guarantees in advance creates, but retain the ability to mount a rescue in a crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Discovery stumbled in the second quarter, demonstrating the hazard of depending heavily on blockbuster returns from its Burbank film studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Landslides are a recurring hazard in Ethiopia during the country's main rainy season, which typically runs from June to August.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The hazard extends to human beings as well as animals and may help to explain the recent mysterious increase in “silo deaths.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“We don’t let other industries design products with embedded fire hazards and walk away when they fail. Vape companies shouldn’t get a pass either,” said Tony Hackett, a policy associate at Californians Against Waste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

It is too soon to draw any firm links to climate change, but there are well-documented trends in the "Roof of the World" that have increased the likelihood of such hazards.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

"Over time, they fracture into smaller, harder-to-track pieces that pose hazards to vessels and resource operations."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

In Europe, regulators have flagged the potential hazards related to hidden handles and drafted new standards to ensure they still work even if a car's power is cut off.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The headlights illuminated the front of the house, and the hazards were blinking.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

I hazarded a number of guesses as to where the movement, and more importantly the reaction to it, was headed.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022

Edward Holmes does not like making predictions, but last year he hazarded a few.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 19, 2021

Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019

McKinsey hazarded a guess: anywhere between $75 billion and $100 billion a year, or between 15 and 20 percent of the Pentagon’s annual expenses.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2016

“If a black cat crosses your path, you’ll have bad luck,” hazarded Tendai.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

By 1858, the famous Butterfield stagecoaches were ferrying the mail through the cut over the pass, hazarding a vertiginous angle comparable with San Francisco’s Lombard Street, without the switchbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Borinsky invites guesses; the problem is that we might not care enough for any of the people or ideas onstage to bother hazarding them.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2023

Yet nowhere in the Federalist essays do any of the authors explain why liberty is so valuable that it is worth hazarding the consequences of human nature.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 4, 2022

In August, Seaman Apprentice Ryan Mays was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë