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imperil

[im-per-uhl] / ɪmˈpɛr əl /


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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

The Justice Department filed an appeal against Leon's ruling on Thursday, arguing it "would imperil the president and national security and indefinitely leave a large hole beside the Executive Residence".

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The dispute imperils the port, which generates $61 billion in economic activity annually for the region.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

The case is part of a wider international movement seeking to hold major companies responsible for climate damage that imperils millions, especially in developing countries.

From Barron's Dec. 21, 2025

Yet, it’s that same environment that imperils them.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

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

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

There was no air defense to speak of because Russian authorities had assumed that the refinery, in the Siberian city of Omsk, was too far from Ukraine to be imperiled.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

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

He imperiled his life again to take away from the Giants the skaldic mead, which made anyone who tasted it a poet.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Over the coming weeks and months, can a deal be done where the war stops, Ukraine does not feel defeated, Europe does not feel imperilled and transatlantic relations are as near to conventional as possible?

From BBC Feb. 25, 2025

Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”

From Washington Post Feb. 6, 2023

The imperilled facility - Europe's largest nuclear power plant - remains disconnected from the Ukrainian grid after shelling cut its external power lines.

From Reuters Sep. 7, 2022

On more than one occasion it has imperilled the peace of nations, and the doctrines of salvation became the watchwords of contending armies.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler

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

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

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

I suspect this is a sidelong way of introducing her own role: as ambassador between worlds, the one imperilled and the other mindlessly, blindly imperilling.

From The Guardian Jun. 9, 2013

"Do you speak of imperilling your life with an idea that this will console your mother?"

From Vineta The Phantom City by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner




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