High-stakes

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

The RAID negotiator specializes in mediation during high-stakes critical events.

Officials from the US and Iran hold high-stakes talks in Oman amid rising tensions.

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.