risk-taking
Americannoun
adjective
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The tired brain is prone to risk-taking, being impulsive, mood swings, anxiety and lacks empathy.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The problem was that the idea that the Fed would act in a market crisis encouraged ever more flagrant risk-taking on Wall Street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“The first is an excess of speculative risk-taking that skews the distribution of market outcomes to the downside,” he said.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Businesses championed new technologies in a bout of risk-taking with few equivalents in a region dominated by older industries and ambivalent about tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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