threat
Example Sentences
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The threat might have worked: Multiple weapons makers later agreed to preliminary deals before they had contracts in hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The wider insurance industry is collaborating to try and tackle the threat posed by artificial intelligence from customers and organised crime gangs.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Critics of conscription argued that forcing individuals into military service under threat of imprisonment was a clear example of involuntary servitude.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
So just how real is the threat to U.S. quantum companies?
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
The cub swiveled its ears and looked at him, then glanced politely away, because in wolf talk, to stare too hard is a threat.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing threat
Beowulf vocabulary
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Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy
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