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

Patients with melanoma that had a high-risk of recurring were given vaccines and immunotherapy as treatments. — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

The patients had gone to UCLA for cancer and infectious-disease treatments, high-risk women’s services, major organ transplants and other specialty medicine care, the association said. — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Molecular convergence There are hundreds of rare, high-risk autism genes, acting in more than a thousand different ways. — Pien Huang, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026

More than 300 people were referred for colonoscopies - which were offered free in the pilot program - which identified four cases of early-stage cancer and another 13 cases of high-risk precancerous polyps that were easily removed. — Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for high-risk

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