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How to pronounce “hazard”

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Pronunciation guide for hazard

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of hazard with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Disaster by ChoiceHow Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes."
Definition summary: The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]

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Disaster by Choice

How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes."

[Noun]
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
Chance. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
[Verb]
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.