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
"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
In India, gas-intensive companies such as fertilizer producers might be forced to throttle back production, which could imperil crop yields in a country that still suffers from malnutrition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
There is a temptation to gloat, laugh at and mock them, but that may be a trap which further imperil American democracy.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 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
Keeping the family home can feel like an important legacy to offer to your children, but not if ownership creates strife that imperils family relationships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
Barron’s advised readers to avoid Hims stock in March 2025, arguing that an end to the GLP-1 shortage imperiled shareholders.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
The U.S. led a naval convoy to protect ships going through the Gulf in 1987, when the Iran-Iraq war imperiled oil flows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
I tried to imagine a situation in which I might find myself dangerously imperiled by a rising dew point and could not.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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The upward trend in global average temperatures has brought unseasonably warm weather to Switzerland's higher altitudes, and a reduction in snow has imperilled some of its ski resorts and competitions.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Newsom opposed this at the time, saying he wanted to protect "highly imperilled fish species close to extinction".
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
The actions of the Chinese coastguard vessel "imperilled the safety of the crew" of the Philippine boat, the task force said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2023
He feels only that his own interests as king are imperilled.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie
A microscopic parasite now threatens Taco Bell’s hot streak, potentially imperiling millions of dollars in sales and setting up a slog to win back consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the film, Rogan reads from Swan’s book, Countdown, that “the modern world is threatening sperm counts and is imperiling the future of the human race.”
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 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
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
Jebabli, the National Guard official, denied imperilling migrants and said Coastguards were increasingly threatened at sea when stopping migrant boats.
From Reuters ● May 4, 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
Lynch has a reputation as a prosecutor with a strong relationship with the police, but she wasn’t necessarily imperilling that.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2014
The person who entered the room was a rough, seafaring man, and evidently intended to sleep there, which Somers was entirely willing he should do, if it could be done without imperilling his personal safety.
From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Oliver Optic
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