as in gamble
a risky undertaking
their latest business venture failed big-time
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as in to endanger
to place in danger
don't venture more money than you can afford to lose
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as in to risk
to take a chance on
ventured to speak plainly at the meeting
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Recent Examples of venture
New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
Your core group of friends is centering their energy on humanitarian ventures.
—Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
Though an overnight travel ban was lifted at noon, officials cautioned against venturing out.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Horse initially looked like a counterintuitive move when it was spun out from a Geely-Renault joint venture as a hybrid and combustion engine specialist in 2023.
—New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
Your core group of friends is centering their energy on humanitarian ventures.
—Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
The Orion capsule the crew will pilot – built by Lockheed Martin – is due to travel about 4,700 miles beyond the far side of the moon, taking its passengers the farthest humans have ever ventured in space before returning to Earth.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
Though an overnight travel ban was lifted at noon, officials cautioned against venturing out.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venture
Noun
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Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant.—
Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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Coming into preseason testing, the big question is whether last season’s gamble would pay off.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In this case, though, when Kelly landed from his jump, his foot came down on Yilmaz’s Achilles tendon and Kwiatkowski decided that his actions could endanger the safety of his opponent — an offence that warrants a straight red card instead of a yellow.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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He was convicted in December of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles, which carried a maximum penalty of life in prison.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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But experts, diplomats, Cuban Americans and Cuban private entrepreneurs have been warning the administration that a complete halt of oil supplies would risk the country’s total collapse, since the population was already enduring a profound humanitarian crisis.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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Public acknowledgment of the clash risked escalating into direct confrontation between nuclear powers, a step that, in 1952, many feared could ignite a third world war.—
Steven Beynon,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Santa Margarita never had a chance.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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Shoppers can also enter the Product of the Year sweepstakes for a chance to win a collection of this year’s winners.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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But the weight of the system, the control, the submission to husband, pastor, church, Jesus Christ and God, let alone the demands on women and children, threatened to crush her.—
Rachel Clarke,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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While Miami struggled to threaten, the 20-year-old Martínez appeared once again to be the biggest beneficiary of Dos Santos’s ascension in the wake of Steve Cherundolo’s four-year run as head coach.—
Josh Gross,
Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Designed for vertical viewing, the series features characters from Zombies, Descendants and Phineas & Ferb in bite-size adventures that blend comedy, drama and thrills, all unfolding in school hallways and told through open locker doors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2026
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Most people head to Florida in pursuit of Mouse ears, Miami nightlife, Everglades adventures, or a tropical Keys vacation.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Venture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venture. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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