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run a risk

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  1. Also, run the risk. Be subjected to danger, as in Hiding anything from customs means running a risk that you'll be caught, or Without the right postage and address, this package runs the risk of being lost. [Mid-1600s]


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Ms Dickinson said shop staff are often advised not to intervene because they run a risk of being attacked.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025

Speaking to an audience of thousands at the Nov. 18 coronation ball for the new queen, she added: “All of us, we all run a risk simply for being who we are.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

“I think we run a risk of setting ourselves up for failure if we think that there’s going to be another King,” she says.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2018

People who fail to find work early in their lives run a risk of being unemployed and underemployed into early adulthood and beyond, according to researchers.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2017

But he felt that to stay was to run a risk as great that of being compelled to join the ranks of the bushrangers, and of that he had a great dread.

From In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia by Horatio Alger

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