dangerous place
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdangerousandplace
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dangerous
adjective
uk/ˈdeɪn.dʒər.əs/us/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ.əs/
A dangerous person, animal, thing, or activity could ...
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place
noun
uk/pleɪs/us/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofdangerousandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This has been a dangerous, reckless adventure, which has made the world a much moredangerousplacefor all of us.
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This is about the mostdangerousplaceto put it.
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It might be thought that the world is no longer adangerousplace.
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If we do not, the world will be a much moredangerousplace.
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Ignoring the fates of human rights victims almost anywhere invariably makes the world-our world-a moredangerousplace.
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The passage between two spaces - two worlds - that the door signifies is adangerousplace.
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They must be members elsewhere, in a smaller, more accessible, less demanding, lessdangerousplacethan the modern state.
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The connotations of the street in opposition to the home, as invoked in subcultural theory, are that of an exciting and slightlydangerousplace.
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According to statistics, probably the mostdangerousplacein our environment is our own home.
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Nor did they hesitate to make the road a distinctlydangerousplacefor black migrants.
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The world is adangerousplace, and so is the health system; hospitals in particular.
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It is the mature society that can recognize that the world is adangerousplacewithout becoming chaotic or, worse, paralyzed in attempting to go forward.
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The world will become an even moredangerousplace.
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The day the cold war ended and the iron curtain was raised, the world became a less predictable and moredangerousplace.
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I know from my experience that roads, especially in urban areas, can be adangerousplacefor cyclists.
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Those who think that the two cases can be treated separately are fooling themselves and risk making the world a moredangerousplace.
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If that is not done, the consequences are likely to lead to this country being a more dangerous rather than a lessdangerousplace.
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But, for all that, its abolition would leave the world a much moredangerousplacethan it is.
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In fact, freed from the straitjacket of communism, the world became a rather moredangerousplace.
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