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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
If your home is made of wood, termite damage can cause potentially dangerous incidents like sagging ceilings, unsafe staircases, falling posts and beams, and more, Allan Bossel, operations expert at Bed Bug Exterminator, explains.
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Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2025
Around 250,000 animals annually are victims of hoarding, often kept in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
If people aren’t speaking up, ask what truths feel unsafe to say.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
The administration claimed that Harvard failed to act despite being aware that Jewish and Israeli students felt unsafe on campus.
—Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
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Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2025
Around 250,000 animals annually are victims of hoarding, often kept in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
If people aren’t speaking up, ask what truths feel unsafe to say.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
The administration claimed that Harvard failed to act despite being aware that Jewish and Israeli students felt unsafe on campus.
—Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsafe
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This led to the state’s adoption of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and many related laws meant to lessen the emissions that contribute to drier, hotter and increasingly dangerous conditions across the world — and to inspire other governments to follow suit.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Critics say Trump has only become more dangerous, pursuing radical ideas without restraint.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 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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Alleged stabber Larry Boards is facing two counts of felony assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment for the crazed confrontation at the 82nd St.-Jackson Heights No. 7 train station at about 4:15 p.m. Friday, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Broadly, the search warrant describes the crimes as first-degree intentional homicide and reckless endangering of safety by use of a deadly weapon.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
10 July 2025
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This represents a highly unorthodox and potentially risky approach to trade.—
Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
7 July 2025
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Much of this inventory is now sitting idle on the market, as buyers steer away from a likely risky investment.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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Brown, like Espada, is often put in perilous predicaments while trying to discuss any of these developments.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
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 21 Jul. 2025.
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