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as in dangerous
involving potential loss or injury
workers are forbidden from engaging in unsafe activities on company time
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as in careless
not paying or showing close attention especially for the purpose of avoiding trouble
people who have a record of being unsafe drivers usually have to pay higher insurance premiums
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Recent Examples of unsafe
As the war worsened, her office had become unsafe due to enemy bombing raids, and her administrative department had been relocated in the city, transferring to one of the school buildings at Hiroshima Jogakuin, east of where Little Boy was heading.
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Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
The unmonitored adjustments created an unsafe condition at the center of the building that could cause the roof to collapse, Brown said.
—Taylor O’Connor 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
Some platforms enforce these rules programmatically to prevent unsafe actions.
—Jigar Kothari, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
But, given that this was not considered an unsafe condition, Air India did not carry out inspections.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 12 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
The unmonitored adjustments created an unsafe condition at the center of the building that could cause the roof to collapse, Brown said.
—Taylor O’Connor 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
Some platforms enforce these rules programmatically to prevent unsafe actions.
—Jigar Kothari, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
But, given that this was not considered an unsafe condition, Air India did not carry out inspections.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsafe
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More dangerous heat waves The Great Lakes region warmed substantially faster in the six years since the last assessment than it did in decades prior, the report shows.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Here's what each means, according to the NWS: Heat advisory: A heat advisory is the lowest level and is issued for dangerous heat conditions that are not expected to reach the criteria for a more serious alert.—
Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
24 July 2025
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Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
8 July 2025
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Fire crews sometimes allow lightning-strike fires to burn, and made the decision to do that on the Dragon Bravo Fire, intended to reduce hazardous fuels and vegetation along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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Map of damage: See how the Texas floods unfolded and why Camp Mystic was in a hazardous location The death toll has risen to 129 on Saturday, including more than three dozen children.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
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Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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The chairman of the Texas Democratic Party had blunt words for his counterparts in Washington and elsewhere who might be urging Democrats in the Legislature to take politically risky action.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
18 July 2025
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The key to any retirement investment strategy is to diversify and not place too much in any one asset class, and to rebalance to less risky assets as one nears and enters retirement.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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And staffing struggles continue to strain the agencies tasked with policing perilous road behavior.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 July 2025
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To a Washington bean counter, his loss might have looked like one tiny but welcome subtraction in a giant spreadsheet, but not in a region so prone to these perilous events that it’s known as Flash Flood Alley.—
Zeynep Tufekci,
Mercury News,
10 July 2025
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“Unsafe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsafe. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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