high-risk
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“We think a lack of cash returns and likely margin volatility warrant a high-risk rating.”
Vaccines for meningitis, hepatitis A and B, dengue, flu, Covid and RSV will now be recommended only for “high-risk” children, or be left to “shared clinical decision-making” between doctors and parents.
But in the real U.S. healthcare system, it looks much more like a high-risk social experiment with no safety net.
From MarketWatch
It was directly aimed at those above him, a high-risk strategy that became the final blow in a battle Amorim was never going to win.
From BBC
Predictive algorithms have powered early-warning systems for sepsis, flagged high-risk patients and helped manage scheduling for years.
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