Ask for and Risk

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Ask for verb - Increase the likelihood of.

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Risk and ask for are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Risk" instead a verb "Ask for".

Risk verb - To take a chance on.

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Ask for and risk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ask for" instead a verb "Risk".

Nearby Words: risky, risked, riskiness, risking

If Lee doesn't ask for help, Boyd will insist that Vernon can't just let Lee take that risk, no matter how Lee treats them.

Source: Video Game / The Walking Dead
This can lead to a case of Achilles in His Tent, the other heroes' life is at risk, but he won't help them (or they won't ask for their help) due to their strained relationship.

Source: Sudden Intelligence
She catches on to his distress and delivers this Aesop to him, and then offers him a choice: she could make herself young and beautiful, but then he'd always have to risk her sleeping around with his friends — or she could remain old and ugly, but be the best wife he could possibly ask for.

Source: Literature / The Canterbury Tales

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