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endanger

[en-dayn-jayr] / ɛnˈdeɪn dʒeɪr /


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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

It applies to monuments and architecture, but also works of art and books, requiring states to safeguard and respect cultural property and refrain from any actions that might endanger it.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

There is even reason to think that her mother may have carried an illness that will endanger others — — and the women need the space where their cott was.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

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

Frontier AI developers are growing at a breakneck pace, fueling concerns over a lack of guardrails for a technology that endangers both corporate and national security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The de-extinction breathlessness potentially endangers real animals for the sake of hypothetical future de-extincted ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Hublin says, “We are always acquiring, yes? All across the world, industrialization endangers mineral deposits. We collect as many types of minerals as exist. To a curator, none is superior to any other.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In Maine, groups opposing DeepGreen’s plan say the Bay of Fundy is habitat for some of the world’s most endangered whales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Fin whales, which are the second largest species of whale behind blue whales, are endangered after decades of commercial whaling decimated their population, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

That’s what Ossoff sensed last fall, when he was considered to be the nation’s most endangered Democrat.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

It found that eight species were now classed as endangered, twice the number identified in the previous assessment in 2008.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

“Fiver, I won’t pretend that I didn’t follow you up here to speak angrily. You’ve endangered our good start in this warren—” “Endangered?” cried Fiver.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

How to manage “giving while living” without endangering your own retirement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jemal Abdela, 32, was sentenced after pleading guilty to the offence of endangering others during a sea crossing to the UK without valid entry clearance on July 25.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

I like to think that knowing might have kept me from endangering you, that having understood and acknowledged the anger, I could control it.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates


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