risky
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Passage is dangerous and extremely risky for shipping companies and countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
U.S. financial regulators issued guidance urging banks to view loans to undocumented immigrants as potentially risky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A Scottish Government spokesperson said all this is expected to come into effect from September 2027, as will a local authority licencing scheme for less risky procedures.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
That might mean buying back yen and selling risky assets to repay their loans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Calling feels too risky, but I’ve texted David and plan to meet him again.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
It serves as a conduit between riskier, volatile cryptocurrencies and the conventional finance system, essentially used as an offshore dollar.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“A renewed and sustained war would almost certainly be a risk-off event,” said Mayfield — one that would keep investors away from stocks and other riskier investments.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
As everyone knows, it’s riskier to life and limb to drive a car than to fly in a passenger airline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
But rarely are the finished films measurably different or riskier than those that came before.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
As Allied bombing continued on German cities, the duties of the Hitler Youth grew riskier, especially as the older Hitler Youth were called to military service.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
But Messi’s most common strategy is also one of the riskiest: He waits to see which way the keeper commits and then simply sends his penalty in the opposite direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
While take-off and landing are aviation's riskiest phases, fatal accidents immediately after lift-off are uncommon.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The riskiest segments included administrative support, data entry, bookkeeping, and editing, said the study.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026
Resurrecting the slogan is perhaps the riskiest approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2026
In a CDO you gathered one hundred different mortgage bonds—usually, the riskiest, lower floors of the original tower—and used them to erect an entirely new tower of bonds.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
