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Either scenario would likely imperil the administration’s plan to use the oil bounty to reload the strategic stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sheinbaum said she didn’t believe López Beltrán’s letter would imperil Mexico’s relationship with the U.S., however.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

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

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 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

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

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

Those who see the humanities, heavy coursework and value of a Harvard education as gravely imperiled can take heart in the phenomenon that is Humanities 10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is the peace of four departed members of the family to be imperilled because a wilful son refuses to do his duty?

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

This has depleted reservoirs in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, imperiling the many communities that depend on the river for drinking water and irrigation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

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

In 2007, the family business of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, paid $1.8 billion for 666 Fifth Avenue, which promptly fell dramatically in value, imperilling the Kushner real-estate empire.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018

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

Indeed he was quite overjoyed to find himself in the society of a person who was of his own rank in life, and one with whom he might converse without imperilling his own uneasy dignity.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith