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as in endangered
to place in danger
don't venture more money than you can afford to lose
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as in risked
to take a chance on
ventured to speak plainly at the meeting
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Recent Examples of ventured
To fill the silence, my son ventured a guess.
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Matt Fogelson, Time, 21 June 2026
Young Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges all ventured to the Philadelphia suburbs to play college ball, met for the first time, and played together in one season, then rose to the top and won the NCAA Tournament in 2016.
—Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Rodrigo has ventured out into the battlefield of love and lived to tell the tale.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Grady Seale, another collector, was among a handful of people from Northern California who’d ventured south for the Open House.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
Periodicals first presented mundane merchant reports, then ventured to publish observations on arts and literature.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Dunn ventured into video game art and design in the 2000s, contributing visuals to a Rugrats game, a Meet the Robinsons tie-in game, and the Tak and the Power of Juju series.
—Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
Altar Stone = manpower The latest study builds on earlier findings that ruled out glaciers as the sole means of transport, supporting the conclusion that a group of Neolithic individuals ventured out into the wild unknown to source and transport this stone using nothing but human power.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026
No sailor had ventured south of Cape Bojador and returned.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 June 2026
Matt Fogelson, Time, 21 June 2026
Young Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges all ventured to the Philadelphia suburbs to play college ball, met for the first time, and played together in one season, then rose to the top and won the NCAA Tournament in 2016.
—Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Rodrigo has ventured out into the battlefield of love and lived to tell the tale.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Grady Seale, another collector, was among a handful of people from Northern California who’d ventured south for the Open House.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
Periodicals first presented mundane merchant reports, then ventured to publish observations on arts and literature.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Dunn ventured into video game art and design in the 2000s, contributing visuals to a Rugrats game, a Meet the Robinsons tie-in game, and the Tak and the Power of Juju series.
—Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
Altar Stone = manpower The latest study builds on earlier findings that ruled out glaciers as the sole means of transport, supporting the conclusion that a group of Neolithic individuals ventured out into the wild unknown to source and transport this stone using nothing but human power.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026
No sailor had ventured south of Cape Bojador and returned.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ventured
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Pygmy hippos are classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with fewer than 2,500 adults remaining in the wild across parts of West Africa, including Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
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Sea turtles are some of the most endangered animals on the planet, and Kemp’s ridleys, the smallest species out of the bunch, are critically endangered.—
Pat Mueller,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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His father also lived a love story as he was saved by a woman who risked her life to do it and later married her daughter.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2026
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Tanizaki’s critique was, in part, a call for cultural preservation; aesthetic values with long histories risked falling by the wayside during a period of militarized globalization.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
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Here, a quilt flies over the spacious skies of Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park (an area threatened by drilling permits approved by the US Bureau of Land Management) bearing Wes Gordon’s Georgia, Ashlynn Park’s Arkansas, and Sergio Hudson’s South Carolina, among others.—
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
23 June 2026
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Trump on Monday threatened to sue the network again over its coverage of problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool following renovations touted by the president on a near-daily basis.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
23 June 2026
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“Ventured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ventured. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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