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Eifert also points to a sub-culture of traders who have gained infamy for engaging in seemingly reckless options trading, and then sharing their gains—or in many cases huge losses—on social media platforms.
‘Going to Vegas:’ Newbie options traders face a reckoning as the tech stock rally fades|Jeff|September 14, 2020|Fortune
Epidemiologists think that is reckless and could both cause massive unnecessary suffering and overcrowd our health care facilities.
Team Reopen: 2, Schools: 0|Scott Lewis|August 31, 2020|Voice of San Diego
“Without that data, it seems reckless to proceed to approving the vaccine,” says virologist Onyema Ogbuagu of the Yale School of Medicine.
Here’s what we know about Russia’s unverified coronavirus vaccine|Tina Hesman Saey|August 11, 2020|Science News
There’s a cliche that tech industry founders are bent on reckless growth all because their aggressive entrepreneurial tendencies weren’t tempered by any college coursework in the humanities.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark on why he’s donating millions to journalism|Pierre Bienaimé|August 11, 2020|Digiday

Discontent with life led to complete recklessness on the battlefield.
The Woman Stuck in a Navy SEAL's Body|Nina Strochlic|September 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Crime, fiscal recklessness, and homelessness are stirring like discordant strains of music.
Why New York—and Bill de Blasio—May Haunt Hillary Clinton in a 2016 Campaign|Lloyd Green|June 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Strategic recklessness aside, the chief problem with the plan was that it needed a weak, feckless opposition.
Jim DeMint’s New Obamacare Attack: It Wasn’t Approved|Jamelle Bouie|October 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What the gun owner claims as self-defense often looks, on closer examination, more like trigger-happy recklessness.
Obama Needs a 'Plan B' on Guns|David Frum|February 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
As the first African-American to rise up the ladder so high, he has rarely risked recklessness as an adult.
Will the Second-Term Quicksand Swallow Barack Obama?|John Avlon|November 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
They propagated their species with perfect recklessness, and it was therefore useless to expect any increased civilisation.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3)|Richard Bagwell
Knowing the cutthroat's recklessness and his almost insane thirst for blood, he feared that this might happen.
Overland|John William De Forest
His face became transformed, alive with a passion uncanny in its recklessness and purpose.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete|Gilbert Parker
It would be lucky if more people had a supply of desirable recklessness, and things would have gone on much better.
The British Expedition to the Crimea|William Howard Russell
The conduct of many of the men, French and English, seemed characterized by a recklessness verging on insanity.
The British Expedition to the Crimea|William Howard Russell

British Dictionary definitions for reckless

reckless

/ (ˈrɛklɪs) /

adjective

having or showing no regard for danger or consequences; heedless; rasha reckless driver; a reckless attempt

Derived forms of reckless

recklessly, adverbrecklessness, noun

Word Origin for reckless

Old English recceleās (see reck, -less); related to Middle Dutch roekeloos, Old High German ruahhalōs

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