How to Use high-risk in a Sentence

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• Gelsinger launched an ambitious, expensive, high-risk strategy to bring Intel back to the global forefront.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
• This earlier screening age provides an opportunity for doctors to catch cancer sooner, particularly in high-risk groups.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 4 Oct. 2024
• Congress created the federal flood insurance program more than 50 years ago when many private insurers stopped offering policies in high-risk areas.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2024
• The rest of the process was over Zoom, and then there was one very high-risk screen test.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 June 2024
• Go here to read more about the high-risk locations for landslides.
  — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, a high-risk bet on a first-timer can turn into an enormous return.
  — Byjessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• While popping your pimples is not advised, there are a few ways to make the process less high-risk.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 27 May 2023
• This is a high-risk throw that quarterbacks are very nervous to make.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• But without a track record, there is also a high-risk for failure with these funds.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• But an economic lifeline has emerged from what was long viewed as a high-risk trade route: the Black Sea.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Her goal is to one day distribute the device to every high-risk client.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• However, keep in mind that these are high-risk, high-reward types of games.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Everything about her says she was made for this wild, breathless — and, yes, high-risk — life of an artist.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• But high-risk infants aren’t the only ones who end up in hospital with RSV.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 24 May 2023
• High mileage:Cars with high mileage are more high-risk for lenders and can be difficult to refinance.
  — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
• Perhaps, there’s a better way to cope with a high-risk pregnancy than the five months of bed rest Cindy waited through.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
• In sharing the footage, the NWS also warned those with high-risk health issues to be aware of the worsening conditions.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
• People were warned to stay out of the water in high-risk zones, which are dangerous for all levels of swimmers.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 25 June 2024
• Their most profitable business had been helping package opaque pools of high-risk debt.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The state requires lead screening for children at age 1, 2, and 3, and at age 4 in high-risk communities.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The tendency for players to challenge defenders one-on-one or take high-risk shots used to be called hero ball, and it was said with a sneer.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The city was in the process Friday of opening four shelters in high-risk zones and was prepared to increase that if needed, once the storm hits, Caballero Ramirez said.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• That’s because if the US does default, high-risk debt instruments will come under the most pressure.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 27 May 2023
• The city was setting up four shelters in high-risk zones and warning residents in risky zones, Caballero Ramirez said.
  — Mark Stevenson and Julie Watson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Waiting until the last minute is a high-risk, high-reward strategy.
  — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Also, Maribeth and Grace told Dateline that Theresa did not live a high-risk lifestyle.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• Now 25, the granddaughter was in a hospital with a high-risk pregnancy.
  — Edward M. Eveld, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• For those in certain high-risk flood zones who have mortgages, flood insurance is required.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• And as a Black woman over 35, her pregnancy was considered high-risk.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Fifteen counties, which include the populous Tampa Bay area, have issued mandatory evacuation orders for those living in high-risk storm surge and flood zones.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024