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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

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

Ms. Khan’s goal was to delay mergers, which could imperil the financing for some.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

From the Himalayas to the Alps, ice-melt imperils mountain communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

The projects would have helped conserve the imperiled spiky succulents that draw millions of visitors to Joshua Tree each year and play a key role as a linchpin of the Mojave Desert ecosystem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

He imperiled his life again to take away from the Giants the skaldic mead, which made anyone who tasted it a poet.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The resulting haze has spread to neighbouring countries, closed thousands of schools, caused tens of thousands of respiratory infections and imperilled countless wild animals.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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

The relative bonhomie in Paris was briefly imperilled at the outset by a furore when organisers mixed up the two nations’ names in the opening ceremony, for which they apologised.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024

Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023

England has never had her national strength, her political position, or even her prestige seriously imperilled since that time.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

In the film, Rogan reads from Swan’s book, Countdown, that “the modern world is threatening sperm counts and is imperiling the future of the human race.”

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

She said they are afraid that the $44,000 yearly insurance bill is imperiling their retirement plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 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

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

The basins are home to two thirds of Earth's biodiversity, but rapid destruction is releasing planet-warming carbon dioxide and imperilling global climate targets.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 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

It may be offering the movies a short-term fix by imperilling their long-term health.

From The Guardian ● May 16, 2019

The believer may pass from one community to another without imperilling his spiritual life, or even establish a new church without necessarily incurring the reproach of schism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various