at the risk of (doing something)
idiom
: despite the possibility of (doing something that could be considered improper, wrong, etc.)
At the risk of sounding rude, I have to ask you how old you are.
Examples of at the risk of (doing something) in a Sentence
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This let the company speed up the manufacturing process — but at the risk of reducing the life span of the jetliners, Salehpour said.
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Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile, red-hot interest in AI talent fueled a bidding war that has, for instance, moved Elon Musk to raise salaries for Tesla engineers at the risk of their being lured away.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
For Bragg, this was a break with lawyerly protocol — to be talking about a potential case before seeing all the facts, at the risk of appearing biased.
—Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Kids need to trip over people and ideas, at the risk of scraping up their psyches, in order to learn how to move through the world and how to connect meaningfully with the people in it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
Putin also staked out his determination to continue the war against Ukraine, even at the risk of war with NATO.
—Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices — at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices.
—Michael Liedtke, Fortune Europe, 7 Mar. 2024
Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone's digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices — at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices.
—Michael Liedtke, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
The choice, fundamentally, is between giving teachers more autonomy at the risk some may not be ‘up to standards’ versus putting more guardrails around teachers at the risk of losing creativity and engagement.
—Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile, red-hot interest in AI talent fueled a bidding war that has, for instance, moved Elon Musk to raise salaries for Tesla engineers at the risk of their being lured away.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
For Bragg, this was a break with lawyerly protocol — to be talking about a potential case before seeing all the facts, at the risk of appearing biased.
—Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Kids need to trip over people and ideas, at the risk of scraping up their psyches, in order to learn how to move through the world and how to connect meaningfully with the people in it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
Putin also staked out his determination to continue the war against Ukraine, even at the risk of war with NATO.
—Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices — at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices.
—Michael Liedtke, Fortune Europe, 7 Mar. 2024
Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone's digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices — at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices.
—Michael Liedtke, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
The choice, fundamentally, is between giving teachers more autonomy at the risk some may not be ‘up to standards’ versus putting more guardrails around teachers at the risk of losing creativity and engagement.
—Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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