imperil
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Its worsening fuel shortages are likely to imperil its security apparatus and the operational capability of its armed forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
One is that it can’t be sold in European Union countries, because the EU has found that its exterior design can imperil pedestrians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
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The work stoppage imperils GM’s heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, as the automaker has limited axle stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The case is part of a wider international movement seeking to hold major companies responsible for climate damage that imperils millions, especially in developing countries.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
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
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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
He weaves the stories together with musicians from perennially imperiled New Orleans performing for his interviewees at a “welcome table” on a levee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
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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
"This is a landmark victory for the Everglades and countless Americans who believe this imperilled wilderness should be protected, not exploited," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
Libyan legislative leaders quit talks in Geneva on a constitution and elections without reaching a deal on Thursday, pausing diplomacy to resolve a standoff that has imperilled a two-year peace process.
From Reuters ● Jul. 2, 2022
"That your Majesty must prevent the outbreak of war in Germany with all your energy, or the position of France in Europe will be much imperilled."
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
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
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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
Some worry that the government’s obvious ambivalence is imperilling the entire reconciliation process.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2016
The need of some of the items upon his little list of accessories had become urgent, imperilling the work upon the estate.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
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