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[haz-erd] / ˈhæz ərd /




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Until Friday, though, weather across Southern California will likely be benign, though extremely high tides could bring a different kind of water hazard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

In the Phase 2b study, the most up-to-date hazard ratio for recurrence-free survival was 0.51 after three years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

While there has been community pushback to Zone 0 mandates, it’s mostly from a vocal minority, says Todd Lando, a battalion chief and wildfire hazard mitigation specialist with Central Marin Fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The weather service’s San Diego office, which monitors Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties, issued a beach hazard warning on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

But mostly what they did was run up and down the sidewalks and sometimes into the street, where the town cops yelled at them for creating a safety hazard.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

The most significant effects are expected along Orange and San Diego counties’ coastlines this week, where the high tides are forecast to cause localized flooding, more coastal erosion and other hazards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is leading the charge, because its role is to oversee reactor safety, laying out potential hazards, including the impact of sloshing waves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

They don’t remove the risk, but they do make it easier for people to safely coexist with hazards.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

A 2024 study published by the American Geophysical Union projected a significant rise in landslide hazards across the Himalayas and Tibet in the coming decades due to increased rainstorms.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Any ambiguity, any tendency to wander from the matter at hand, will introduce grave hazards for the cells, and even more for the host in which they live.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

Then I tossed a strand over my shoulder and hazarded a look at his table.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Scott Waddle, was instead found guilty of dereliction of duty and negligent hazarding at an administrative hearing known as an admiral’s mast, and allowed to retire with full benefits.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2018

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë


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