high-risk

adjective

1

: likely to result in failure, harm, or injury : having a lot of risk

a high-risk activity

high-risk investments

2

: more likely than others to get a particular disease, condition, or injury

high-risk patients

patients in the high-risk group

Examples of high-risk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The high-risk, high-reward business of moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz has gotten riskier and more rewarding. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Choose either Block all spam and scam calls or Only block high-risk scam calls. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. — Hayden Field, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026

Parents also can choose to receive alerts if their teens use the bot for high-risk behavior or research. — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for high-risk

• basilisk
• obelisk
• bisque
• brisk
• disc
• disk
• fisc
• fisk
• frisk
• risk
• whisk
• videodisc