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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

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

In the mid-19th century, do-gooders such as William Alcott and Sarah Josepha Hale began urging children be fed a bland diet, lest rich flavoring imperil their health and futures.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

And now investors worry AI imperils the equity and credit of traditional software businesses.

From Barron's Feb. 6, 2026

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

He weaves the stories together with musicians from perennially imperiled New Orleans performing for his interviewees at a “welcome table” on a levee.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 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

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

This is the second lesson of Blink: understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”

From Washington Post Feb. 6, 2023

U.S. prosecutors and Western security officials regard Assange as a reckless and dangerous enemy of the state whose actions imperilled the lives of agents named in the leaked material.

From Reuters Dec. 10, 2021

In each of these papers a plea for the imperilled Girondins is audible.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel

But doing so would come at a steep cost: imperiling its own authority to say what the law is.

From Slate Apr. 23, 2026

Such productivity-focused products are becoming widely adopted in the workforce, and OpenAI has so far lagged behind its startup rival Anthropic in winning this market, imperiling its lead in the AI race.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 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

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

She wanted to report what she’d seen, but a co-worker warned her that she would be imperilling herself.

From The New Yorker May 2, 2016

He was trying in the faithfulness of loyal friendship to save him from the sin which was imperilling his very life.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)




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