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imperil

[im-per-uhl] / ɪmˈpɛr əl /


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Sheinbaum said she didn’t believe López Beltrán’s letter would imperil Mexico’s relationship with the U.S., however.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But he warns that even using the 4% rule, persistently high inflation would imperil portfolios by making retirees withdraw more and more money each year.

From Barron's ● May 30, 2026

Taiwanese officials fear even the most subtle rhetorical change in policy from Trump could imperil a delicate status quo that has held for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The Justice Department filed an appeal against Leon's ruling on Thursday, arguing it "would imperil the president and national security and indefinitely leave a large hole beside the Executive Residence".

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The work stoppage imperils GM’s heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, as the automaker has limited axle stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The case is part of a wider international movement seeking to hold major companies responsible for climate damage that imperils millions, especially in developing countries.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

It also imperils cooperation with agencies such as Homeland Security Investigations, which sometimes partners with local law enforcement to take down drug cartels, prevent terrorism and investigate other major crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025

The court’s action imperils the CPSC’s ability to ban products that may maim or kill consumers, including children, giving corporations freer rein to flood the market with dangerous goods.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025

The Honorable Judge Edmund Harrison of Maryland issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of “promulgating an infernal orthodoxy that imperils the fabric of good society.”

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Arthur goes on to attack her daughter’s credibility, but without producing any evidence beyond her own testimony, which is severely imperiled by a documented history of her own actions.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

When the U.S. finished pulling out of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, it imperiled the lives of every Afghan who had helped, including the Institute of Peace’s local staff and their families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Inventories of crude are the least imperiled, but there’s more concern about inventories for products such as gasoline and diesel.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Each company knows they're looking not just at profits but also at imperiled property and people.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

In the deathless dark, their southern heritage lay defenseless and imperiled.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The resulting haze has spread to neighbouring countries, closed thousands of schools, caused tens of thousands of respiratory infections and imperilled countless wild animals.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The upward trend in global average temperatures has brought unseasonably warm weather to Switzerland's higher altitudes, and a reduction in snow has imperilled some of its ski resorts and competitions.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023

Supplies and communications of forces all fronts, including the Russians, are threatened and control of the sea actually imperilled.

From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick

This has depleted reservoirs in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, imperiling the many communities that depend on the river for drinking water and irrigation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The son had missed an immigration check-in, imperiling his chances of remaining in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

But doing so would come at a steep cost: imperiling its own authority to say what the law is.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

Growing competition and weak margins—Rivian has never posted a quarterly profit—are further imperiling the sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2025

Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Along with gaseous reactive nitrogen, satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere at the end of their lives leave tiny particles of aluminum oxide, imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

Officials held the robot for 10 days, imperilling plans to show her work at the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021

Bradley asked Emily Lenzner, the communications director of Atlantic Media, to try to keep imperilling details out of the press.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2015

The idea that someone like Zygier had violated Mossad's code of silence, perhaps even imperilling lives, provoked soul-searching in Israel.

From Reuters ● Feb. 14, 2013

It seems almost certain that the mother's errand was to try to get him away from his exhausting work; he was imperilling his health and his safety.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by J. R. (James Russell) Miller


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