perilous

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Box has the lead now but it's a perilous one.

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fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"

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adjective

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Core meanings and parts of speech for perilous.

adjective

See also: parlous, precarious, touch-and-go

Example sentences

Box has the lead now but it's a perilous one.

This is also what makes hacking such a perilous crime.

Staging seems like a perilous way of creating clean commits.

It is always perilous for a startup to put all its eggs in one BigCorp basket.

Lack of liquidity: what bank, already in perilous condition, is going to lend to these young people?3.

If they made a mistake, it was only in trying to navigate perilous waters somewhere between honor and law.

Any entrepreneur with half a brain knows that taking VC money, growing explosively, and trying to IPO is a perilous road.

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

They become perilous, however, in their blind, wholesale demonization of the United States.

It's holographic, and extrapolating is perilous in holography some small source of noise that isn't significant when you have a megabyte of data recorded might turn out to be overwhelming when you have ten gigabytes of data recorded, let alone hundreds of terabytes.