obvious danger

collocation in English

meaningsofobviousanddanger

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obvious
adjective
uk
/ˈɒb.vi.əs/us
/ˈɑːb.vi.əs/
easy to see, recognize, ...
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danger
noun
uk
/ˈdeɪn.dʒər/us
/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/
the possibility of harm or death ...
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(Definition ofobviousanddangerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobvious danger

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A great infrastructure for potential surveillance is regarded by the privacy rights movements worldwide, as anobviousdanger.
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Theobviousdangerof this kind of approach is the ease with which it can lapse into genealogical antiquarianism.
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Vansittart could not help but remember the 1930s and his own role in trying to alert his government to theobviousdanger.
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But he may have on his ground some fairlyobviousdangerwhich he might, without undue expense, have fenced or removed.
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It is thought that this should avoid theobviousdangerof perhaps temporary lack of concentration in the 30-minute journey through the tunnel.
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In countries with few resources and where the government is the main employer, corruption is anobviousdanger.
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The fourth mainobviousdangerto world peace is that of racial tension.
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Therefore, there is theobviousdangerthat the "wide boys" will come in and will run what, in effect, will be commercial services.
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There is a furtherobviousdangerfrom this over-nuclearisation.
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Provided that the chemicals do not escape and eventually reach the ozone layer there is noobviousdanger.
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I imagine that that is because of theobviousdangerof allowing two such powerful forces to operate in close proximity.
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The mostobviousdangeris the growth of nationalism.
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This is theobviousdangerapart from the hardships involved, along with the continuing growth in homelessness and despair.
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However, measures must also be taken to avoid theobviousdangerof information poverty.
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Why can he not protect something which is inobviousdanger?
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There is, of course, theobviousdangerthat ignorant and unqualified persons may attempt to apply the anesthetic themselves.
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One is theobviousdangerof the concentration of large numbers of small children, in view of the possibility of air attack.
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Theobviousdangerof increasing contributions above a certain height is that they will be inflationary in character.
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There is then anobviousdanger; namely, that we shall rely too much on part-time forces.
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