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

In short, this is a high-risk, high-reward gamble for the Wolves that could either vault them back into title contention or lay the seeds for Edwards' eventual departure from Minnesota. — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Even with Mars out of the question, that vision entails many long years of pouring billions of dollars into high-risk, profit-eating endeavors. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 24 June 2026

Cristiano Ronaldo arrived at the World Cup with a double in a game where Portugal’s high-risk approach paid off handsomely. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 24 June 2026

That $75 billion funds the next generation of rockets, satellites, factories and AI — long-horizon, high-risk innovation that markets rarely back and governments increasingly cannot. — Douglas P. McCormick, Fortune, 23 June 2026

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