jeopardy
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The company had been targeting a midyear debt sale before a group of states sued to block the Warner Bros. merger, putting the acquisition in jeopardy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Reports soon surfaced that Schmitt’s general counsel Ethan Harper, who stood behind him holding the infamous poster, saw his potential White House staff position being placed into immediate jeopardy.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
The dispute between the city of Santa Fe Springs and the Metropolitan Little League has put the 65-year-old youth sports partnership in jeopardy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Yet the deep selloff gripping the $31.5 trillion Treasury market isn’t putting the year’s biggest M&A deal in jeopardy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
I had no idea what the word jeopardy meant, but it sounded bad.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Her second record, The Art of Loving, is brimming with memorable songs about the jeopardies and joys of falling in love.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
The difference is that guarding the nation is not just another job; it is a moral obligation involving jeopardies and commitments that cannot safely be jobbed out, in effect, on a mercenary basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another type of response is elicited by this column when we report on the joys and jeopardies encountered by individual staff members in preparing stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there the sisters are placed in strange and typical Village jeopardies.
From Time Magazine Archive
He who jeopardies his own station and character for the sake of one actually his enemy!
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
Vocabulary lists containing jeopardy
The Bill of Rights
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