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
The retailer’s executive chairman, Marcus Lemonis, said in August that the state is over-regulated, expensive and creates a risky business environment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 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
But its rich returns are paltry compared with those of MicroStrategy, a company dedicated to a risky business: buying Bitcoin with money provided by you and other shareholders.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 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
