risky business
Example Sentences
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But loading up on tens of billions of dollars in more debt is risky business.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 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
Storing this waste is already a volatile and risky business.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2024
“It’s a little nuts, yeah, but we all know this is part of the deal. It’s a risky business, I guess you could say.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2023
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
