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[thret-n] / ˈθrɛt n /




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Appeared in the June 30, 2026, print edition as 'Scandals Threaten Milei’s Agenda'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, she dives into the crux of the matter: If we hand over the written word to AI, what will we lose?

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2023

"What were we going to do? Threaten to live on the moon?"

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2021

Threaten a big class action “Theft of Intellectual Property” suit against the companies while they still exist.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2018

Dispatch! then, be the word; for enemies Threaten us from without and from within.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno




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