HAZARDING Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

hazarding

verb

present participle of hazard

as in endangering

to place in danger just so the tourists could see the sea lions up close, the captain needlessly hazarded his ship

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as in risking

to take a chance on was unwilling to hazard landing the plane on the small island, which didn't even have an airfield

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Recent Examples of hazarding But Sixx isn’t hazarding a guess as to when the next batch of new material will come along. — Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025

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Oil leaking from a tanker grounded off the coast of Oman is not only endangering a nearby island but has now also reached beaches on the Gulf Arab country's mainland, to the north of the island, Oman’s environment authority said Wednesday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
The Parks worker, Joshua Moe, 24, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment after the child lost parts of her fingers on her left hand when the firework went off Tuesday evening, police said.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

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Some of the loudest opposing voices are creatives, who see the products being created by AI companies as something threatening to their own practice and to the world at-large.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman warned at the United Nations Thursday that Yemen’s internal collapse is increasingly threatening interests far beyond its borders.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

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