have been risking
- present perfect progressive of risk.
Example Sentences
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So if the Knicks win, sportsbooks will lose because bettors have been risking a lot of money on them all season long, creating a liability.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
For the past two months, they have been risking their own lives to evacuate civilians from frontline areas.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2022
Getting vaccines to essential workers is paramount, as they have been risking their lives to keep society running, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
Schwartz could have been risking his career by embracing Georgopoulos’s ideas.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
In the excited state of the country, it would have been risking his life for an Indian to have approached the settlement—and to have been discovered and captured would have been certain death.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
