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hazard

[haz-erd] / ˈhæz ərd /




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One reason that analysts and doctors want to see the full data is to understand the hazard ratio, an important metric in clinical trials for cancer drugs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration cleared the 250-foot structure Friday, finding it would not pose a substantial hazard to aircraft using nearby Reagan National Airport.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

The minister said she authorised fisheries officers to "destroy the shark" if it could be captured because of the "exceptional circumstances" of the attack and the "hazard posed by the shark".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Exposing cells directly to a chemical can reveal a potential hazard, but it does not, by itself, show whether eating a food exposes human tissues to enough of that chemical to cause the same damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Giles was more concerned with food than with the conversation, though now and again he remembered my existence and flung me a remark at hazard.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

So much of Herzog’s career has been about weighing the hazards of happiness.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The major destruction of hydropower infrastructure underscored the risks of that strategy in a region where glaciers are retreating, permafrost is thawing and extreme hazards are becoming harder to predict.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Nonstop swells combined with a “super” El Niño phenomenon have washed away truckloads of sand from Newport Beach and other parts of the California coast, exposing hazards buried a century ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

These can include exercise, assessment of hazards that could contribute to falls, and education tailored to a person's individual risk.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Sadly, no one had considered the hazards that might result from stagnant water in the pipes.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

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

If “Don’t Read Poetry” had hazarded more judgments about specific types of poems — appraising and not merely praising their structural, technical and thematic content — then Burt would have produced a much finer book.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019

“I think,” my friend hazarded, “that she just doesn’t hesitate.”

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2016

“We have hazarded our lives for his cause.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

It presents those barriers outside of the structures that produce them, and without hazarding the organizational requirements to win a majority for the program its subjects support.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

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

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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