ADJECTIVE
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not financially safe or secure
high risk investments
anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky
speculative business enterprises
a bad investment
How To Use high-risk In A Sentence
- Non-selective NSAID therapy may be appropriate for chronic pain management in aspirin users given that suitable GI prophylactic measures are utilized in high-risk patients.
- If you are in a high-risk area with no such defences planned, your insurer may stop your cover. Times, Sunday Times
- As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
- Too many high-risk prisoners are set loose after cursory checks, sometimes just a quick phone call. The Sun
- Illicit prescription drug use is at a high level among the high-risk felony probationers who volunteered for this study.
- Doctors are so scared of being sued that many will refuse to treat high-risk patients or perform difficult operations, medical experts have warned.
- Financial consultants who mis-sell high-risk schemes do so because they are paid huge commissions by the fund management companies.
- For the romantic and postromantic traditions of poetics in which Benjamin and Adorno participate, modern lyric ambition stands as a, or even the, high-risk enterprise, the "go-for-broke-game" [ "va-banque-Spiel"], of literary art: The lyric poem must work coherently in and with the mediumlanguagethat human beings use to articulate objective concepts, even while the lyric explores the most subjective, nonconceptual, and ephemeral phenomena. Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
- It also raises the prospect of more extensive prenatal screening for inherited disease, which is currently offered only to high-risk couples because of the danger of miscarriage. Times, Sunday Times
- In order to target high-risk subpopulations for more aggressive therapy, the challenge has been to identify those patients at high risk.