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
They depend on decades-old Soviet-era equipment, while fuel shortages imperil their effectiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 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
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
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The closing of the chokepoints at Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb and the Black Sea collectively imperils roughly a quarter of the world’s oil supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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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The fallout over Friday’s filing has imperiled Pirro’s stature after more than a year eagerly taking up cases favored by the president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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 Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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
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This was Sir Keir feeling the necessity to take on the claim by the now former Defence Secretary John Healey that the country's national security could be imperilled unless much more was spent on defence.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
The relative bonhomie in Paris was briefly imperilled at the outset by a furore when organisers mixed up the two nations’ names in the opening ceremony, for which they apologised.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
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
Growing competition and weak margins—Rivian has never posted a quarterly profit—are further imperiling the sector.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2025
While the U.S. accounts for about 20% of India’s goods exports, the U.S. tariffs will be felt in India’s most labor-intensive industries, imperiling employment for hundreds of thousands of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Brendan Cummings, conservation director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said there’s an extinction crisis imperiling thousands of species, a dire phenomenon worthy of priority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 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
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 descendants of Jack London, Armistead Maupin, the Grateful Dead and Maya Angelou are fleeing a city they say has become unaffordable, imperilling its artistic identity.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2016
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
For institutions in their nature are conservative; they dare not, without imperilling their stability, permit a too frequent inspection or alteration of their foundations....
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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