run the risk
Verb
Meaning
run the risk (third-person singular simple present runs the risk, present participle running the risk, simple past ran the risk, past participle run the risk)
(often followed by of) to risk something important.
Synonym: be at risk of
Synonyms
Examples
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us.
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.