risk-taking
noun
: the act or fact of doing something that involves danger or risk in order to achieve a goal
Starting a business always involves some risk-taking.
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Lardini played a safer game, answering demand for newness that avoids risk-taking.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
The competitive advantage used to be that American institutions tolerated dissent and rewarded intellectual risk-taking.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Traditionally, the Animation Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has not been known for risk-taking.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
Our new observations of physical risk-taking in chimpanzees suggests that the rise in risk-taking in human adolescence isn’t due to a new yen for danger.
—Lauren Sarringhaus, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
The competitive advantage used to be that American institutions tolerated dissent and rewarded intellectual risk-taking.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Traditionally, the Animation Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has not been known for risk-taking.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
Our new observations of physical risk-taking in chimpanzees suggests that the rise in risk-taking in human adolescence isn’t due to a new yen for danger.
—Lauren Sarringhaus, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for risk-taking
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“Risk-taking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/risk-taking. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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