run a risk

phrase

: to do something that may result in loss, failure, etc.

not afraid of running risks

Examples of run a risk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Studies have found that companies tend to buy cheap, low-quality carbon credits, which run a risk of exaggerating their carbon reduction claims or providing results that would have happened anyway, leaving no real climate benefit. — Brian P. McCullough, The Conversation, 10 Dec. 2025

In the torrent of social media misinformation generated by an event and its immediate aftermath, prediction markets driven in part by social media run a risk of their own. — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025

Companies run a risk of not having enough inventory if consumers want to buy more than what’s in stock. — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021

But even without breakthrough infections, some children run a risk of falling through the cracks due to their family's vaccination status. — Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 30 June 2021

People with shorter credit histories run a risk of being penalized by this more than those with longer credit histories. — Rich Exner, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021

Rhymes for run a risk

• basilisk
• obelisk
• bisque
• brisk
• disc
• disk
• fisc
• fisk
• frisk
• whisk
• videodisc