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 phenomenon of illicit mining in Johannesburg and surrounding areas was one of the concerns that prompted the government in March to deploy the army to certain high-risk areas in a yearlong operation to stop violence linked to organized crime. —CBS News, 10 June 2026

Anthropic said Claude Fable 5 is equally powerful to Mythos but has new safeguards that can block responses in high-risk areas such as cybersecurity and biology. —Alex Harring, CNBC, 10 June 2026

If future clinical trials confirm the findings, cardiologists could eventually use genetic screening to identify high-risk patients, monitor them more closely, and begin treatments such as SGLT2 inhibitors before heart failure symptoms appear, according to the cardiologist. —Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026

Fable 5 changes that equation by bringing those capabilities to a broader audience while routing certain high-risk requests through a less permissive model. —Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026

Rhymes for high-risk

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