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threaten

[thret-n] / ˈθrɛt n /




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Fire salamanders typically inhabit damp forests, streams, and mountainous regions, where habitat destruction and fragmentation increasingly threaten their survival.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

But calls also have increased in complexity to include reports of hazardous materials and widespread brush fires that threaten an increasingly large segment of people living in areas that abut wildlands, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

All he had to do was threaten to list his Palo Alto home for sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Industry bodies argue that the sites could provide jobs and improve the UK's energy security as overseas conflicts threaten supply.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

But its theft sparked a series of events that would threaten to derail the highest achievements of modern art.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Article 112 of the Thai criminal code simply reads, "Whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to 15 years."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

As the Fisherwoman admits after a transgression that threatens this happiness, “It’s easier to believe the bad than the good.”

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Now they’re on opposite sides of a court fight that has spilled onto the Nov. 3 ballot and threatens further development on the nearly 300-acre site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

A powerful El Niño threatens to disrupt coffee harvests around the world, adding to farmers’ already steep production costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Between Westerly and Mystic, the tracks are at an angle, embedded into the sloping land, so that the whole train threatens, ever so slightly, to topple over.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Laura Lemos says joining Roque's El Camino church gave her hope when crime threatened to destroy her family.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 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

Blevins’s bad-cop reputation gave his staff leverage: They threatened to call him in if contract terms weren’t to their liking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

More young people appear to be gravitating to trades where jobs may be less threatened by AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

This trade-off led to another sharp disagreement that threatened the convention: How would America’s population be counted?

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Scientists have discovered that certain tumors considered less threatening can contain hidden populations of highly aggressive cancer cells, potentially explaining why some children experience devastating outcomes despite lacking the usual genetic warning signs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

By Sunday this dying weather front will bring some thicker cloud to Wales and central England threatening a few patches of light rain or drizzle, but not much.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

For all man’s pretensions, the natural world remains cruel and threatening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Some Airbnb hosts are threatening to quit the platform, raise their housekeeping fees or pare their rental properties down to the bare essentials rather than accept new restrictions on checkout chores.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Now that he was no longer trying to attack them, he didn’t seem so threatening.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova


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