threatened
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On campus, students are educated on the importance of not touching or feeding the donkeys, which weigh about 500 pounds and can charge at humans when feeling threatened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
After trading sideways for much of the past year, the “Magnificent Seven” have been staging a comeback, helping to re-energize a bull market threatened by rising bond yields and stubbornly high crude-oil prices.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
A good car balance should put Verstappen in a good place for a race that will be dominated by tyre degradation in the stifling heat, whether the threatened rain holds off or not.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Earlier this year, Musk called for Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary to be fired and threatened to buy the discount airline in order to oust him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Austria-Hungary, threatened with a complete breakdown of order as people in the cities starved and rioted, signed an armistice agreement on November 3.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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