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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

"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."

From BBC May 7, 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 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

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

A day after structural damage imperiled the largest-ever planned office-to-residential conversion in the U.S., investors and lenders said they are reconsidering future commitments to these complex real-estate projects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

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

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

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

In December 2023, he warned the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that "our survivability will be imperilled" unless humans restore the balance with the natural world.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2025

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

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 Moncure Daniel Conway

The son had missed an immigration check-in, imperiling his chances of remaining in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

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

From Slate Apr. 23, 2026

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

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

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

You must realise you are running grave risks and imperilling your own happiness.

From Bandit Love by Juanita Savage




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