threat

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The chip company’s stellar streak is under threat early Thursday as the shares pointed 1.7% lower in premarket trading.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

The nuclear threat will remain, and a new global economic danger will have been created.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

That he didn’t follow through makes issuing the threat, to begin with, a huge strategic blunder.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2026

Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis