imperil
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But he warns that even using the 4% rule, persistently high inflation would imperil portfolios by making retirees withdraw more and more money each year.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
Its worsening fuel shortages are likely to imperil its security apparatus and the operational capability of its armed forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Taiwanese officials fear even the most subtle rhetorical change in policy from Trump could imperil a delicate status quo that has held for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
He had told himself, as he walked to see his father, that any show of emotions, any hint of final leave-taking could imperil the escape.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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The closing of the three chokepoints collectively imperils roughly a quarter of the world’s oil supply and provides a fresh test of the ability of energy-hungry economies to adapt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
And now investors worry AI imperils the equity and credit of traditional software businesses.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
The court’s action imperils the CPSC’s ability to ban products that may maim or kill consumers, including children, giving corporations freer rein to flood the market with dangerous goods.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025
Hall is very aware of how climate change imperils his harvest.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025
The Honorable Judge Edmund Harrison of Maryland issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of “promulgating an infernal orthodoxy that imperils the fabric of good society.”
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Inventories of crude are the least imperiled, but there’s more concern about inventories for products such as gasoline and diesel.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
Each company knows they're looking not just at profits but also at imperiled property and people.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The low-lying island is seriously threatened by rising sea levels, and has been a strong voice on the international stage for impoverished countries imperiled by climate change.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
But her third feature raises those stakes, envisioning an entire society imperiled by plague, the death toll climbing and panic spreading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
In the deathless dark, their southern heritage lay defenseless and imperiled.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
In December 2023, he warned the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that "our survivability will be imperilled" unless humans restore the balance with the natural world.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025
Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
Libyan legislative leaders quit talks in Geneva on a constitution and elections without reaching a deal on Thursday, pausing diplomacy to resolve a standoff that has imperilled a two-year peace process.
From Reuters ● Jul. 2, 2022
Supplies and communications of forces all fronts, including the Russians, are threatened and control of the sea actually imperilled.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
As inflationary pressures persist, markets are betting that Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will probably tighten further even at the risk of imperiling growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Growing competition and weak margins—Rivian has never posted a quarterly profit—are further imperiling the sector.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2025
That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025
The standard for imperiling scrutiny, so far, has been set at scandal.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Along with gaseous reactive nitrogen, satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere at the end of their lives leave tiny particles of aluminum oxide, imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
The basins are home to two thirds of Earth's biodiversity, but rapid destruction is releasing planet-warming carbon dioxide and imperilling global climate targets.
From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023
Officials held the robot for 10 days, imperilling plans to show her work at the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021
Geithner worried about imperilling the fragile recovery, and he wanted to coax financiers into accepting other industry reforms.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016
To protect the house against the hazardous affects of imperilling winds, long poles are made to prop the somewhat dilapidated shanty.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
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