imperil
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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
"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
One is that it can’t be sold in European Union countries, because the EU has found that its exterior design can imperil pedestrians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
Microsoft on Tuesday warned a judge that the Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic could hamper US warfighters and imperil the country's drive to lead in artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 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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From the Himalayas to the Alps, ice-melt imperils mountain communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Here we have two very brilliant young students, each of whom runs into a problem that imperils his college career.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Arthur goes on to attack her daughter’s credibility, but without producing any evidence beyond her own testimony, which is severely imperiled by a documented history of her own actions.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
That said, the performances are so captivating that one quickly becomes embroiled in the imperiled fates of the characters and their flailing attempts to either escape or ignore them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
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
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The resulting haze has spread to neighbouring countries, closed thousands of schools, caused tens of thousands of respiratory infections and imperilled countless wild animals.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The civil war in Sudan has further imperilled one of the ancient wonders of the world - the Meroe Pyramids, built during the flourishing civilisation of the Kingdom of Kush.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
Nicephorus dismissed both his generals from the service—Burtzes for having acted against orders, Peter for having obeyed them too slavishly, and allowing an important advantage to be imperilled.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
Letting them keep a campaign promise without imperiling his bid to lead the caucus would be a win-win.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
The attacks set off raging fires at some of the warehouse complexes, imperiling the businesses of thousands of third-party vendors who sell goods over the popular online platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
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
The labels, feeling the pinch in their bottom line, may try to squeeze more money out of Spotify, imperilling its future growth.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
You don't care for me as you did, Hollyhock, and I imperilling my immortal soul all for you.
From Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief by W. (William) Rainey
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