threatening

Example Sentences

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“What’s especially threatening about this is that our state’s tax structure is essentially a house of cards,” Kiley said.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s now also plenty of angst around AI threatening to make whole industries obsolete and risking white-collar jobs in the process.

From MarketWatch

Which was crazy, because he was the one who’d gotten the threatening letters.

From Literature

Meanwhile, the U.S. is dialing up the economic pressure by tightening sanctions and threatening tariffs against countries that trade with Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal

Three months after Usman, 30, had finished working for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, his family received a letter threatening him with court action.

From BBC