High-stakes

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving large costs or rewards. idiomatic, not-comparable

    "But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame."

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"For most students, who’ve spent much of their academic careers studying for the suneung, the exam day is a high-stakes challenge."

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