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risk-taker

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“If you are not a risk-taker, you are not in shipping,” Prokopiou told shipping publication Tradewinds in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Slater, however, was a risk-taker, and aspired to be more than a factory hand.

From Barron's Jan. 28, 2026

On the pitch, he remains Madrid's eternal risk-taker - capable of brilliance, chaos, and sometimes both in the same play.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2025

And she proved time and again over the course of her artistic career that she was a risk-taker.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2024

DELPHI: In fact, technically I’m endangering our entire operation . . . which is not... well, I’m not a natural risk-taker as you know.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling