death-defying

adjective

: very dangerous
death-defying stunts

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The death-defying act that Jumping Through Hoops performs is reaching back to rewrite our understanding of culture and gender in our own times. Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025 But the ringer is Michael Cera, as Norwegian tutor Bjørn Lund, employed as an all-purpose factotum by the shady, swaggering, death-defying entrepreneur played by Del Toro. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 For all its superlative, death-defying success (and excess), the franchise ends in a predictable place: swallowed whole, like everything else. Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025 There’s a death-defying scene up in the air that was being teased a lot in this press run. Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for death-defying

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“Death-defying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death-defying. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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