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imperil

verb as in cause to be in danger

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Not surprisingly, this melancholy picture celebrates and mourns Langhe, a region imperiled by global warming and encroaching industrialization that threaten the once-fecund practice of truffle gathering.

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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan could be imperiled by rigid government-imposed conditions on a contingency plan for reducing the blue-helmet force there, a senior UN official warned Tuesday.

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If Democrats gain power they could imperil his agenda and launch investigations into his administration.

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“After Watergate, President Ford said there was an imperiled president, not an imperial presidency,” said presidential historian Robert Dallek.

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A pending court ruling imperiled Apple’s lucrative Google contract.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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