Example sentences for: risk-averse

How can you use “risk-averse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Though it's hard to make out the precise effect at this point, the fear of a meltdown in his popularity and the distant threat of impeachment are likely to make the president more risk-averse.

  • Hoping to revive the taste for surreal television, ABC hired Twin Peaks creator David Lynch to pilot a noirish program called Mulholland Drive . After insisting that the director cut down on cigarette-smoking characters and shots of dog poop, the risk-averse network ditched the series and filled its time slot with another Friends clone.

  • In addition, the Japanese are considered to be more risk-averse and forward-looking than American

  • As we've seen, stealth weapons blind the risk-averse public and policy-makers to the genuine perils of combat in the opening days of any military engagement, turning war into an "out of sight, out of mind" proposition.

  • In particular, individuals who face greater uncertainty about their income and those who are risk-averse may tend to save more for a "rainy day."


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