endangered

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When her husband, Jerome Saxton, finally spotted garbage bins outside a Nike store on their fourth day, he took a video as if spotting an endangered species in the wild.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Defendant endangered everyone — law enforcement and civilians in the area — and is lucky that, despite his actions, no one was injured,” the prosecutors’ sentencing memo said.

From Los Angeles Times

Truman, from Weston-super-Mare, denies arson and being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

From BBC

Sea otters, now classified as an endangered species, once thrived along the Pacific Coast before the fur trade during westward colonial expansion drastically reduced their numbers.

From Science Daily

That so many people in Minneapolis have endangered themselves by waving phones in the faces of armed federal officers and shouting obscenities as if they were psychotic is one of many unhappy consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal