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jeopardy

noun as in danger, trouble

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He was acquitted in the 1990s and, due to the double jeopardy law, was unable to be prosecuted again, despite later making admissions to a prison guard that he was guilty.

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Pankow was scared to death when I was driving the car: “You have no business doing this. My life is in jeopardy.”

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Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE.

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Decades of American dominance had sucked the jeopardy and therefore the interest out of the biennial contest between the United States and Great Britain.

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That’s when I started saying that Colbert may be in jeopardy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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