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jeopardy

[jep-er-dee] / ˈdʒɛp ər di /


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The company had been targeting a midyear debt sale before a group of states sued to block the Warner Bros. merger, putting the acquisition in jeopardy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Reports soon surfaced that Schmitt’s general counsel Ethan Harper, who stood behind him holding the infamous poster, saw his potential White House staff position being placed into immediate jeopardy.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The dispute between the city of Santa Fe Springs and the Metropolitan Little League has put the 65-year-old youth sports partnership in jeopardy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Yet the deep selloff gripping the $31.5 trillion Treasury market isn’t putting the year’s biggest M&A deal in jeopardy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

I lay out how we are all in jeopardy, how the whole country is in jeopardy because of my trick with the berries.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Her second record, The Art of Loving, is brimming with memorable songs about the jeopardies and joys of falling in love.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

The difference is that guarding the nation is not just another job; it is a moral obligation involving jeopardies and commitments that cannot safely be jobbed out, in effect, on a mercenary basis.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there the sisters are placed in strange and typical Village jeopardies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another type of response is elicited by this column when we report on the joys and jeopardies encountered by individual staff members in preparing stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

It filled the armies and the Treasury, and postponed many jeopardies.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse




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