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endangered

[en-deyn-jerd] / ɛnˈdeɪn dʒərd /
ADJECTIVE
imperiled
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But he remembers doing so quite fondly in “A Gorilla Story,” a memoir of sorts, as well as a status report on the great apes of East Africa, still endangered, always terrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The AI boom—and its vast benefits to the global economy—could also be endangered.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Today, the estate houses more than 120 species of critically endangered or vulnerable wild animals.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Around the same time, the committee also met to review an exemption application related to water management at the Grayrocks Dam in Wyoming and its effects on endangered whooping cranes downstream in Nebraska.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Both telescope and microscope produced new knowledge, but in the seventeenth century only the telescope directly endangered the existing order.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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