risky business
Example Sentences
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Such hunting was an extremely risky business: The pelvic wound suggests that the hunter may have been directly beneath his prey, thrusting upward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Somewhere along the way, I absorbed the belief that it was risky business.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
In fact, it was an expensive and risky business still—as the horrific loss of the Challenger shuttle and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, demonstrated all too vividly.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
Apartment developers and real estate brokers said additional costs from ULA make it even harder to earn a reasonable profit in what can be a risky business.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2024
Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
