endanger
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Some boomer and Gen X parents and grandparents, however, are hesitant, fearing doing this could endanger their own financial security if they run into steep healthcare or long-term-care costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Claims by current and former researchers that the tech will endanger humanity - with one suggesting there is a greater than 10% chance of it "killing all humans" - have raised alarm bells.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Don’t force them to flout congressional intent or endanger lives in doing so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Lana warned against approaching Anak Krakatoa saying materials ejected from the volcano could endanger those within the exclusion zone.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Private Williams,” said I, “there are more sicknesses than the smallpox, and we endanger ourselves by resting in the vapors.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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“It puts the small businesses and nonprofits that put on shows every night at risk. And, it endangers fans’ economic well-being.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Although it endangers his secret Traitor identity, he tries to protect Funches.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
The judge emphasized that Dobbs focused on a right to elective abortion, while Seyb’s case “tests how far Idaho may go when a woman’s pregnancy severely endangers her health.”
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Pope Leo XIV may be right in the long-term that artificial intelligence endangers humanity, but investors are ignoring him in the short-term as they try cashing in on Wall Street’s hottest theme.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
I will attempt to eat at the table, or read the newspaper there, but it’s so small and rickety that any wrong movement endangers the house.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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That’s what Ossoff sensed last fall, when he was considered to be the nation’s most endangered Democrat.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
An endangered damselfly has been spotted in wetlands created by an "ambitious" project that restored a stretch of a rare chalk river.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Several forces made fiscal hawks an endangered species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
They argued it will devastate threatened and endangered fish, including Chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Nor is it only the creatures that forage on the ground or those who prey on them that are endangered by the foliar spray ing of the elms.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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How to manage “giving while living” without endangering your own retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Chan Mathok Atak, 19, from South Sudan, admitted endangering others during a sea crossing on 23 July.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
A teenager who piloted a dinghy carrying a then-record 165 migrants across the English Channel to the UK has pleaded guilty to endangering others during a sea crossing.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Stupidly, I’d forgotten to pack my music folder in my backpack this morning, which meant that today I’d be coming to band unprepared, already endangering my position as second chair.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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