How to Use risky business in a Sentence

risky business

noun
  • That's risky business, though, for a team that is competing for a playoff spot now.
    — Mike Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Well, as the Doctor knows all too well, traveling back in time can be a risky business.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • As someone with dark skin, laser procedures have always seemed like risky business.
    — Tayler Adigun, Allure, 2 July 2026
  • Coup and punishments Plotting a coup is risky business.
    — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Coup and punishments Plotting a coup is risky business.
    — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Shooting on glaciers is a risky business, but Dosa and her team had glacial guides who knew when to pull them out for weather.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Posting about the Minnesota tragedies was risky business for a business.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The risks of mixing love and money Turning true love into true profit can be a risky business.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • All of this is risky business for those who operate buildings that are 80 to 100 years old.
    — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The only way to neutralize the threat of these mines is to remove them, which is a seriously risky business.
    — NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And gambling on a second or third round rookie to become an immediate starter is risky business.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Getting in between Southerners and their queso could be called risky business.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • So creating a law to execute how to define AI is a risky business.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • But that left the continent's farmers bearing 100 percent of the risk of a very risky business.
    — Roger Thurow, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2010
  • And while allowing kids to have free reign can be risky business, Jessi assures it's been more helpful than harmful.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Doing so is risky business in this day and age when corporate attorneys insist on avoiding class action suits.
    — Jerry Weissman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Plumbing the marketplace in one object is risky business, but the Tale of the Tall Clock is telling.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • When items such as hard drives or solid-state memory cards become unusable, simply throwing them away is risky business.
    — Renee Schafer, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Tom Cruise engaged in a little risky business to close out the 2024 Paris Olympics.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Adapting beloved intellectual property to the stage is a risky business.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Read full article Using one’s business as a platform to stake claims on contentious social issues is risky business.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Risky Business Management science indicates that these changes are a very risky business.
    — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • But deep-sea mining is considered a risky business not just because of environmental concerns.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
  • What started three years ago as a crackdown on risky business behavior by home builders, and then an ensuing housing slowdown, has spiraled rapidly this month.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • For farmers who planted orchards years ago expecting a buyer at harvest, the closure adds new uncertainty to an already risky business.
    — Nina Burns, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Third, mass uprisings are extremely risky business for participants and governments alike.
    — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2014
  • And as our heroes attempt to balance the books on this very risky business venture, the series is running its own kind of cost-benefit analysis about the arts — culinary or otherwise.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Amazon is doing some risky business by having these adorable Anrabess Ruffle Boxer Shorts on sale for 40 percent off.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2026
  • But the crypto world remains filled with companies that engage in risky business practices and don’t offer much transparency about their experimental products.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Any new product venture is a challenging and risky business, and when the new product depends on ecosystem readiness, the risk factors multiply significantly.
    — Arie Brish, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

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