threaten
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Hiking rates right as higher oil prices threaten to slow Japan’s economy by restraining corporate activity and private consumption is not without risk.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Geofence warrants threaten to re-create that logic in digital form.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
It’s a perennial pathogen, highly contagious and extremely deadly, and its occasional flareups could threaten a global disaster.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity, though monsters of abstraction threaten and police us.’
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Then, unable to resist another chance to tease, she added, “Unless wicked ghosts appear and threaten to eat us. Then I shall surely scream myself. Eeeeeeek!”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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