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• Exposed to harm or danger.

  ‘23 million people in Africa are at risk from starvation’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Children who use mobile phones are at risk of memory loss, sleeping disorders and other health problems.’
  • ‘Exposure assessment identifies the population at risk and the likelihood of exposure to the hazard.’
  • ‘Many include rare or threatened habitats that are home to species at risk.’
  • ‘He could have explained to the customers that their information was at risk, without revealing quite so much detail.’
  • ‘The clinic acknowledges that very few women who have abortions there do so because their lives are at risk.’
  • ‘When animals migrate to mate and find food, they are at risk every time they need to cross a road.’
  • ‘But there was no way to experiment because the baby would be put at risk.’
  • ‘The songs, some instrumental, some vaguely vocal, were never at risk of being lost in the din.’
  • ‘Rumours that the Bluetooth systems of cars are at risk from infection from mobile phone viruses have been debunked.’
  • ‘The outdoor chickens are more at risk of picking up infection from wild birds, other animals and the environment.’

  Synonyms

  danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, threat, menace