threaten
Example Sentences
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The stunning Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the nation’s rarest and most critically threatened mammals with fewer than 50 believed to remain in the Sierra.
From Los Angeles Times
Netflix has signed a $72 billion deal, but Paramount, which is bidding nearly $78 billion for the whole company, has gone straight to shareholders and threatened to wage a board fight at the same time.
Now that he was no longer trying to attack them, he didn’t seem so threatening.
From Literature
Under Salt Marsh follows detectives as they race to solve the mystery of a local schoolboy's death before a once-in-a-generation storm threatens to destroy evidence and the future of the fictional town of Morfa Halen.
From BBC
Rapidly rising costs outpaced most people’s income growth; the pandemic exposed how vulnerable workers were to economic shocks; and now, AI is threatening to replace jobs.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
