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- adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by risk.
- adjective Being particularly subject to potential danger or hazard.
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- adjective Having a
great risk .
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- adjective not financially safe or secure
Etymologies
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Examples
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Breast cancer patients that are classified as high-risk have been shown to still reap the benefits of Herceptin as long as four years after they have stopped using this treatment.
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Garrido was rightly classified as a high-risk offender after he served his federal prison sentence, but the federal probation office "failed to supervise him accordingly," Ware wrote after reviewing the report: Home visits were rare and his probation officer never talked with neighbors or local law enforcement.
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In the low-risk group, only 7 percent had aggressive cancer, compared with 40 percent of the men classified as high-risk, they found.
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Garrido was rightly classified as a high-risk offender after he served his federal prison sentence, but the federal probation office "failed to supervise him accordingly," Ware wrote after reviewing the report: Home visits were rare and his probation officer never talked with neighbors or local law enforcement.
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These young people must be identified as a high-risk population.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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Unfortunately, though, the change doesn't apply to plans that enroll some of the sickest people: those who buy coverage in so-called high-risk insurance pools because they have medical problems that make them uninsurable in the private market.
News 2012
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The more someone walked or, even more strikingly, the more they ran, the less likely they were to have gained large amounts of weight, even if they ate what the study politely calls a "high-risk diet."
NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2011
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So thousands of people stayed for days in areas that the system had identified as high-risk, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Masako Mori, a senior opposition member of Parliament from Fukushima, told the AP that two alternative routes would have led away from the areas identified as high-risk by SPEEDI.
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So thousands of people stayed for days in areas that the system had identified as high-risk, an Associated Press investigation has found.
hernesheir commented on the word high-risk
This first listing on Wordie/Wordnik doesn't seem true.
June 12, 2010