occupational hazard

noun

: an injury or ailment resulting from the work one does or from the environment in which one works
Hand injuries are an occupational hazard for typists.

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Quinn’s distinction between person and image, once an occupational hazard of extraordinary fame, has become an ordinary feature of ordinary life. — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026 Behind the polished facades, roughly nine out of ten were privately exhausted, unwell, or both, and had normalized that reality as an occupational hazard. — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Falling over on grass is an occupational hazard, and whether a player gets injured most often comes down to pure luck. — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 3 July 2026 But satellite link failures, network jamming, and physical severing of telecoms are something of an occupational hazard in war. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for occupational hazard

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“Occupational hazard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/occupational%20hazard. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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