riskily
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If they do order a clamp down, will the Houthis obey—or will they go with their own interests, however riskily calculated?
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2024
He expressed concern over Gutierrez’s lack of experience as a 24-year-old armorer and wrote that budget-concerned producers sometimes cut corners by riskily hiring people “who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2021
Meaning those who'd never had Covid-19 could mistakenly think they had immunity, and might then act riskily because of this false sense of security.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2020
It also, somewhat more riskily, tries to fold the kind of playful, wide-eyed high spirits familiar from the “Night at the Museum” movies into what is in effect a midlife melodrama.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2013
Only those who earn a living as precariously, as riskily and with as much patient labor as a salmon fisherman, can so well value a dollar.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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