run a risk
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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
In the torrent of social media misinformation generated by an event and its immediate aftermath, prediction markets driven in part by social media run a risk of their own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
Self-published authors run a risk of being sold cheap, he added.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017
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
He had submitted to losses rather than run a risk.
From Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel by Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold
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