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"text": "He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist."
},
{
"ref": "2009 August 28, Ewan Murray, I owe my Rangers career to Sir David Murray, says Walter Smith, The Guardian",
"text": "He took a chance on me, gave me an opportunity to get into management, the opportunity I wanted, which could not have been an easy decision to make.",
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"ref": "1982 February 19, Harold C. Schonberg, “Cuts In Federal Arts Budgets To Hit Small Groups Hardest”, in The New York Times",
"text": "[…] say they will tend to play it safe, relying on sure-fire box-office hits and refusing to take a chance on experimental works, which almost are always box-office failures.",
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"ref": "1919, John Hugh McQuillen et al., The Dental Cosmos, V.61, page 728",
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"(idiomatic) To risk doing something; to try something risky."
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"word": "roll the dice"
},
{
"word": "take a flyer"
},
{
"word": "take a gamble"
},
{
"word": "take a risk"
}
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "riskuvam",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "рискувам"
},
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"sense": "to risk",
"word": "поемам риск"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "riskeerata"
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{
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"sense": "to risk",
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"idiomatic"
],
"word": "pelata upporikasta ja rutiköyhää"
},
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "arriscar"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "riskáro",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "ρισκάρω"
},
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"sense": "to risk",
"word": "ριψοκινδυνεύω"
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"sense": "to risk",
"word": "παραβάλλομαι"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "megkockáztat"
},
{
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"sense": "to risk",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to risk",
"word": "tesz egy próbát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "megpróbálkozik"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to risk",
"word": "rischiare"
},
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"roman": "riskovátʹ",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "рискова́ть"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "ta en chans"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "magbakasakali"
}
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},
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"ref": "1982 February 19, Harold C. Schonberg, “Cuts In Federal Arts Budgets To Hit Small Groups Hardest”, in The New York Times",
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"ref": "1919, John Hugh McQuillen et al., The Dental Cosmos, V.61, page 728",
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],
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"word": "roll the dice"
},
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"word": "take a flyer"
},
{
"word": "take a gamble"
},
{
"word": "take a risk"
}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "riskuvam",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "рискувам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"english": "poemam risk",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "поемам риск"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "riskeerata"
},
{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to risk",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "pelata upporikasta ja rutiköyhää"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "arriscar"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "riskáro",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "ρισκάρω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ripsokindynévo",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "ριψοκινδυνεύω"
},
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"roman": "parabállomai",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "παραβάλλομαι"
},
{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "megkockáztat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "kockáztat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "tesz egy próbát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "megpróbálkozik"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "rischiare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "riskovátʹ",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "рискова́ть"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "ta en chans"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to risk",
"word": "magbakasakali"
}
],
"word": "take a chance"
}
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