Hazardous
adjective
Dangerous, having potential to cause harm or damage.
Driving in heavy rain can be hazardous.
Often appears as...
- hazardous conditions
- hazardous waste
adjective
Involving high risk or danger, specifically financial or investment terms.
Investing in the new start-up can be hazardous due to lack of information.
Often appears as...
- hazardous investment
- hazardous venture
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Dangerous for the environment, causing pollution or harm to natural systems.
Dumping industrial waste into the river can be hazardous to the environment.
Often appears as...
- environmentally hazardous
- hazardous pollutants
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Academic
adjective
Dangerous, having potential to cause harm or damage.
Driving in heavy rain can be hazardous.
Often appears as...
- hazardous conditions
- hazardous waste
adjective
Involving high risk or danger, specifically financial or investment terms.
Investing in the new start-up can be hazardous due to lack of information.
Often appears as...
- hazardous investment
- hazardous venture
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Dangerous for the environment, causing pollution or harm to natural systems.
Dumping industrial waste into the river can be hazardous to the environment.
Often appears as...
- environmentally hazardous
- hazardous pollutants
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Risk
Refers to situations where injury can happen due to an activity, substance, or condition.
Wearing protective gear is crucial because construction sites are hazardous.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Precautions
Used when discussing measures to prevent accidents in potentially dangerous scenarios.
Firefighters must assess hazardous situations before entering a burning building.
Pro Tip 3/3Warning Sign
Often appears on signs or labels to warn about safety risks nearby.
The container was labeled 'hazardous' to warn of the toxic chemicals inside.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Risk
Refers to situations where injury can happen due to an activity, substance, or condition.
Wearing protective gear is crucial because construction sites are hazardous.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Precautions
Used when discussing measures to prevent accidents in potentially dangerous scenarios.
Firefighters must assess hazardous situations before entering a burning building.
Pro Tip 3/3Warning Sign
Often appears on signs or labels to warn about safety risks nearby.
The container was labeled 'hazardous' to warn of the toxic chemicals inside.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Risk
Refers to situations where injury can happen due to an activity, substance, or condition.
Wearing protective gear is crucial because construction sites are hazardous.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Precautions
Used when discussing measures to prevent accidents in potentially dangerous scenarios.
Firefighters must assess hazardous situations before entering a burning building.
Pro Tip 3/3Warning Sign
Often appears on signs or labels to warn about safety risks nearby.
The container was labeled 'hazardous' to warn of the toxic chemicals inside.
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Imaging at a trillion...
Or we can look for survivors in hazardous conditions by looking at light reflected through open windows. Or we can build endoscopes that can see deep inside the body around occluders, and also for cardioscopes. But of course, because of tissue and blood, this is quite challenging,
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Secrets of Toothpaste PIPE...
Egyptian and it was made from mint flowers salt and pepper it dates to the fifth century AD and by all accounts it worked very well although it did have the nasty side effect of making your gums bleed having said that it was far less hazardous than some 20th century
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Adventures of an...
We must keep searching the sky for near-Earth asteroids. We are the only species able to understand calculus or build telescopes. We know how to find these objects. This is our responsibility. If we found a hazardous asteroid with significant early warning,
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Can you survive nuclear...
dangerous concentrations of this material would be driven by upper atmospheric winds, potentially leading to hazardous levels of fallout in areas up to tens of kilometers downwind. Thankfully, the same buildings that offer protection from the blast
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What’s in the air you...
helps shield us from ultraviolet rays, on the ground, this gas can form alongside secondary particles and create photochemical smog. This brown fog can be found covering densely packed cities, making seeing difficult and breathing hazardous.
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History’s deadliest...
if they're on a shelf, the U.S. EPA warns against eating food off of them. Though we still occasionally run into issues with synthetic food dyes, our scientific understanding has helped us prune hazardous colors out of our lives.
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
coming home but I'm wondering who's going to take out my hazardous waste trash this is our revolution we all have to do this you guys so with biomimicry the work that I'm in we look to the natural world and say how can nature
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Aquatic Animals Take To...
a crab like this is carrying about a hundred thousand eggs and she has to shed them directly into the sea if they are to hatch but that's a hazardous business for her because although her far distant
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Is radiation dangerous?...
So if we live in a world of radiation, how can we escape its dangerous effects? To start, not all radiation is hazardous. Radiation becomes risky when it rips atoms' electrons away upon impact,
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Imaging at a trillion...
hazardous conditions by looking at light reflected through open windows or we can build endoscopes that can see deep inside the body around occluders and also for cardio scopes but
Video examples
Imaging at a trillion...
Or we can look for survivors in hazardous conditions by looking at light reflected through open windows. Or we can build endoscopes that can see deep inside the body around occluders, and also for cardioscopes. But of course, because of tissue and blood, this is quite challenging,
Video examples
Secrets of Toothpaste PIPE...
Egyptian and it was made from mint flowers salt and pepper it dates to the fifth century AD and by all accounts it worked very well although it did have the nasty side effect of making your gums bleed having said that it was far less hazardous than some 20th century
Video examples
Adventures of an...
We must keep searching the sky for near-Earth asteroids. We are the only species able to understand calculus or build telescopes. We know how to find these objects. This is our responsibility. If we found a hazardous asteroid with significant early warning,
Video examples
Can you survive nuclear...
dangerous concentrations of this material would be driven by upper atmospheric winds, potentially leading to hazardous levels of fallout in areas up to tens of kilometers downwind. Thankfully, the same buildings that offer protection from the blast
Video examples
What’s in the air you...
helps shield us from ultraviolet rays, on the ground, this gas can form alongside secondary particles and create photochemical smog. This brown fog can be found covering densely packed cities, making seeing difficult and breathing hazardous.
Video examples
History’s deadliest...
if they're on a shelf, the U.S. EPA warns against eating food off of them. Though we still occasionally run into issues with synthetic food dyes, our scientific understanding has helped us prune hazardous colors out of our lives.
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
coming home but I'm wondering who's going to take out my hazardous waste trash this is our revolution we all have to do this you guys so with biomimicry the work that I'm in we look to the natural world and say how can nature
Video examples
Aquatic Animals Take To...
a crab like this is carrying about a hundred thousand eggs and she has to shed them directly into the sea if they are to hatch but that's a hazardous business for her because although her far distant
Video examples
Is radiation dangerous?...
So if we live in a world of radiation, how can we escape its dangerous effects? To start, not all radiation is hazardous. Radiation becomes risky when it rips atoms' electrons away upon impact,
Video examples
Imaging at a trillion...
hazardous conditions by looking at light reflected through open windows or we can build endoscopes that can see deep inside the body around occluders and also for cardio scopes but
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Irvin D. Yalom
American Psychologist
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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Marshall Goldsmith
American Coach
When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.
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Robert Bilott
American Lawyer
And in my world, when I was dealing with this for our chemical company clients, you had lists of regulated hazardous materials, and things were permitted. And if you had a landfill and you had a permit, you had to comply with certain limits.
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Pete Gallego
American Politician
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
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John Burroughs
American Author
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Robert Penn Warren
American Novelist
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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Robert J. Waldinger
American Psychologist
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
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Roger Ebert
American Critic
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.
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Irvin D. Yalom
American Psychologist
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
Quote examples
Marshall Goldsmith
American Coach
When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.
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Robert Bilott
American Lawyer
And in my world, when I was dealing with this for our chemical company clients, you had lists of regulated hazardous materials, and things were permitted. And if you had a landfill and you had a permit, you had to comply with certain limits.
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Pete Gallego
American Politician
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
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John Burroughs
American Author
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Robert Penn Warren
American Novelist
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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Robert J. Waldinger
American Psychologist
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
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Roger Ebert
American Critic
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.
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