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endanger

[en-dayn-jayr] / ɛnˈdeɪn dʒeɪr /


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Some boomer and Gen X parents and grandparents, however, are hesitant, fearing doing this could endanger their own financial security if they run into steep healthcare or long-term-care costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Please look into this so we do not endanger everyone we are trying to protect,” the nurse wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Fears about the potential dangers of AI have ramped up in recent days after executives and current and former staff in the field warned the tech could endanger humanity.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Don’t force them to flout congressional intent or endanger lives in doing so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Did I consider that my decision might endanger our family?

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Unions and construction trade groups are warning that limiting construction endangers thousands of building-related jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Although it endangers his secret Traitor identity, he tries to protect Funches.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

The judge emphasized that Dobbs focused on a right to elective abortion, while Seyb’s case “tests how far Idaho may go when a woman’s pregnancy severely endangers her health.”

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

The de-extinction breathlessness potentially endangers real animals for the sake of hypothetical future de-extincted ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

I will attempt to eat at the table, or read the newspaper there, but it’s so small and rickety that any wrong movement endangers the house.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

They argued it will devastate threatened and endangered fish, including Chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jurors rejected Robinson's claim that the Daily Mail had endangered his family by publishing the story.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The critically endangered subspecies, once found across the Middle East, Central Asia and India, now survives in very small numbers in Iran.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

This is a "unique community" of 20 rare and endangered arctic-alpine plants believed to have "survived continuously since shortly after the last glaciation", between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, a spokesman said.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It is not legal to hunt chimpanzees; they are endangered.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

In March, a jury in that case ordered Meta to pay $375 million after finding the company liable for endangering children by making them vulnerable to predators on its platforms, among other harms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Jemal Abdela, 32, was sentenced after pleading guilty to the offence of endangering others during a sea crossing to the UK without valid entry clearance on July 25.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Compounding the problem: Drought, heat waves and an unusually strong El Niño weather pattern are also endangering harvests around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I spent hours trying to figure out what I must do to rescue myself while not endangering my family or anyone around me.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals


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