How to Use occupational hazard in a Sentence

occupational hazard

noun
  • Call it an occupational hazard of the trade.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Falling over on grass is an occupational hazard, and whether a player gets injured most often comes down to pure luck.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 3 July 2026
  • Instead, he’s decided to accept each result as an occupational hazard to keep a clear head and to stay out of his own way.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Losing teeth is an occupational hazard for hockey players.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps this is because despair is an occupational hazard for anyone who counts on government to deliver reform.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Throngs of young fans swarmed the hotel, forcing the band to leave through a back corridor, an ongoing occupational hazard for the Beatles.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Slipping on grass is always an occupational hazard for a tennis player, but especially at the start of a tournament when the courts are at their freshest and slickest.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • But satellite link failures, network jamming, and physical severing of telecoms are something of an occupational hazard in war.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • Listlessness was an occupational hazard for monks, with their long, ritualized, repetitive days.
    — JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Drop Shots 🫠 On Wimbledon’s grass, slipping and falling is an occupational hazard.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Then again, that’s practically an occupational hazard.
    — Andrew Ridker, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Anthrax underfoot Most cases of human anthrax result from working with animals – an occupational hazard for tanners, wool sorters and butchers.
    — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • At first sight on TV, this was, at worst, a mid-level goalkeeping calamity; at best, an occupational hazard for a ball-playing goalkeeper in the 2020s.
    — Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Alongwith extreme weather conditions, animal encounters present an occupational hazard.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
  • Thomasz Szabo, 27, was a prolific participant in a dangerous form of online harassment that has become an increasingly common occupational hazard for public officials across the American political spectrum.
    — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is facing an ongoing issue and it not a usual athletic occupational hazard.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025

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