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They depend on decades-old Soviet-era equipment, while fuel shortages imperil their effectiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Taiwanese officials fear even the most subtle rhetorical change in policy from Trump could imperil a delicate status quo that has held for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The Justice Department filed an appeal against Leon's ruling on Thursday, arguing it "would imperil the president and national security and indefinitely leave a large hole beside the Executive Residence".

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Microsoft on Tuesday warned a judge that the Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic could hamper US warfighters and imperil the country's drive to lead in artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The closing of the chokepoints at Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb and the Black Sea collectively imperils roughly a quarter of the world’s oil supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

And now investors worry AI imperils the equity and credit of traditional software businesses.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

The court’s action imperils the CPSC’s ability to ban products that may maim or kill consumers, including children, giving corporations freer rein to flood the market with dangerous goods.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025

Hall is very aware of how climate change imperils his harvest.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025

Here we have two very brilliant young students, each of whom runs into a problem that imperils his college career.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

A day after structural damage imperiled the largest-ever planned office-to-residential conversion in the U.S., investors and lenders said they are reconsidering future commitments to these complex real-estate projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Inventories of crude are the least imperiled, but there’s more concern about inventories for products such as gasoline and diesel.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Each company knows they're looking not just at profits but also at imperiled property and people.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

The dispute imperiled funding that was deemed essential for Southern California’s resurgent defense and aerospace sectors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

In the deathless dark, their southern heritage lay defenseless and imperiled.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

This was Sir Keir feeling the necessity to take on the claim by the now former Defence Secretary John Healey that the country's national security could be imperilled unless much more was spent on defence.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023

The imperilled facility - Europe's largest nuclear power plant - remains disconnected from the Ukrainian grid after shelling cut its external power lines.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022

The pledges which the nation has given to her soldiers and sailors must be fulfilled, and a grateful people will always hold those who imperilled their lives for the country's preservation in the kindest rememberance.

From A History of the Republican Party by George Washington Platt

Such productivity-focused products are becoming widely adopted in the workforce, and OpenAI has so far lagged behind its startup rival Anthropic in winning this market, imperiling its lead in the AI race.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Growing competition and weak margins—Rivian has never posted a quarterly profit—are further imperiling the sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2025

That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

The standard for imperiling scrutiny, so far, has been set at scandal.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Along with gaseous reactive nitrogen, satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere at the end of their lives leave tiny particles of aluminum oxide, imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

Jebabli, the National Guard official, denied imperilling migrants and said Coastguards were increasingly threatened at sea when stopping migrant boats.

From Reuters ● May 4, 2023

Officials held the robot for 10 days, imperilling plans to show her work at the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021

The descendants of Jack London, Armistead Maupin, the Grateful Dead and Maya Angelou are fleeing a city they say has become unaffordable, imperilling its artistic identity.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2016

What short cuts the driver took, darting across street-corners, shaving lamp-posts and imperilling the lives of small boys and old women selling apples, as only a London hansom-cab driver can!

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon