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as in endangering
to place in danger
just so the tourists could see the sea lions up close, the captain needlessly hazarded his ship
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as in risking
to take a chance on
was unwilling to hazard landing the plane on the small island, which didn't even have an airfield
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Recent Examples of hazarding
But Sixx isn’t hazarding a guess as to when the next batch of new material will come along.
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
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Gonzales has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of endangering or abandoning a child.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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Leaving the camp at that point would only mean endangering everyone’s fate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Skylark by Paula McLain Set across two eras in Paris, Skylark follows Alouette Voland, a young woman unjustly imprisoned in the Salpêtrière asylum in 1664, and Kristof Larson, a medical resident in 1939 risking everything to protect his Jewish neighbors during the Nazi occupation.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
31 Jan. 2026
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Democrats in recent days have demanded changes to immigration enforcement, risking a shutdown in the process.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
31 Jan. 2026
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Trump has also escalated economic pressure on allies, threatening Canada with 100% tariffs over its business dealings with China and hitting Europe with new tariffs before backing down amid resistance to his territorial ambitions in Greenland.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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Earlier this month, Powell said the Justice Department served the Fed grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment over Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last year.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Hazarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hazarding. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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