threaten
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Appeared in the November 3, 2025, print edition as 'Lawmakers And MMA Threaten Boxing'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, she dives into the crux of the matter: If we hand over the written word to AI, what will we lose?
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2023
"What were we going to do? Threaten to live on the moon?"
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2021
Threaten to invalidate delegates they would win until they provide a full report of the breach.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2015
Threaten as much as you please, and I will keep silence; for in threatening there is no sense.
From Four Arthurian Romances by Comfort, William Wistar
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