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The phrase "a risky thing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an action or decision that involves a significant chance of loss or danger.
Example: "Investing in the stock market can be a risky thing, especially during economic downturns."
Alternatives: "a hazardous action" or "a perilous choice."
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It's messy, it's extremely painful, sometimes it's a risky thing.
It was a risky thing to do, with Alice so close by.
It's a risky thing to do and the danger is a lurching sense of anticlimax.
"My friends and I decided it was a risky thing to support," Byczynski said.
It now seems also a risky thing for the President to have done.
It is a risky thing to break the rules, even in the best of causes.
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I felt very safe doing a riskier thing in a more different role in those kinds of hands.
Logic would have told her that using heroin was a fantastically risky thing for a mother to do, because it could be fatal.
And debating whether the very violent manga is influencing people to molest children is a very risky thing to say, especially for an organisation like us".
"It's a weird, risky thing to do," said Taya Weiss, 35, a professional wingsuit pilot and charity organizer.
"It's like skiing of old, when skiing was a really risky thing to do," said Martin Silverstone, 53, a writer from Montreal who has been coming to Tuckerman for 30 years.
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