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run a risk

Idioms

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]

Example Sentences

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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

I think we run a risk of conflating all gun owners with mass shooters.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2019

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

That they cured some one else is not proof that they will benefit you, and you run a risk by taking them as an experiment.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary

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