Risk
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good risk | good stake |
| special | special risk | special stake |
| long | long risk | long stake |
| small | small risk | small stake |
| Other adjectives: strong, real, massive, large, big, great, huge, little, bad, personal, major, additional, significant, larger, financial, bigger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Yes, if they're successful, it puts a universe filled with innocents at risk... but it's not her home world that's at stake.
Source: Expendable Alternate Universe - Sam and Dean in particular are the series' protagonists but at their worst can tend to fall into Knight Templar territory when backed against the wall and especially when either of their lives are at stake and is more than willing to put innocents lives at risk for the sake of their own.
Source: A Lighter Shade of Grey -
The author thus argues that in most cases the detective has little personal stake in the case and little reason to want to to risk a conviction, their clear-up rate and their career just to rough up a small-time criminal in order to prove that they murdered another small-time criminal.
Source: Police Brutality
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Stake and Risk. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/risk/stake
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