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run a risk

Idioms

Also, run the risk. Be subjected to danger, as in Hiding anything from customs means running a risk that you'll be caught, or Without the right postage and address, this package runs the risk of being lost. [Mid-1600s]

Example Sentences

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Ms Dickinson said shop staff are often advised not to intervene because they run a risk of being attacked.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

In the torrent of social media misinformation generated by an event and its immediate aftermath, prediction markets driven in part by social media run a risk of their own.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

“I think we run a risk of setting ourselves up for failure if we think that there’s going to be another King,” she says.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2018

People who fail to find work early in their lives run a risk of being unemployed and underemployed into early adulthood and beyond, according to researchers.

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Take no rest on a hair-mattress; it is elastic and pleasant, certainly, but it does not encase the body; and therefore you run a risk of not awaking languid.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

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