low-risk
adjective
1
: not likely to result in failure, harm, or injury : not having a lot of risk
low-risk investments
2
: less likely than others to get a particular disease, condition, or injury
low-risk patients
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Andrew Mangiapane is a clever, low-risk and modest-upside pick-up to fill some of those minutes.
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Harman Dayal, New York Times, 11 July 2025
But most of it was for administrative or low-risk support.
—Turgay Ayer, The Conversation, 11 July 2025
Signing up for a course, assisting on a project or testing an idea in a low-risk environment creates momentum.
—Victoria Chynoweth, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
Start with low-risk agentic applications: Deploy AI agents for routine tasks like content summarization and simple workflow automation, while maintaining human oversight for complex, high-stakes processes.
—Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Harman Dayal, New York Times, 11 July 2025
But most of it was for administrative or low-risk support.
—Turgay Ayer, The Conversation, 11 July 2025
Signing up for a course, assisting on a project or testing an idea in a low-risk environment creates momentum.
—Victoria Chynoweth, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
Start with low-risk agentic applications: Deploy AI agents for routine tasks like content summarization and simple workflow automation, while maintaining human oversight for complex, high-stakes processes.
—Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for low-risk
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“Low-risk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-risk. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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