threatening
Example Sentences
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More were threatening to leave the agency, according to people familiar with the situation.
Fidelity, the mutual-fund giant, stopped threatening to vote against directors on insufficiently diverse boards.
“What’s especially threatening about this is that our state’s tax structure is essentially a house of cards,” Kiley said.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s now also plenty of angst around AI threatening to make whole industries obsolete and risking white-collar jobs in the process.
From MarketWatch
Which was crazy, because he was the one who’d gotten the threatening letters.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
