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imperil

[im-per-uhl] / ɪmˈpɛr əl /


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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

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

From BBC May 7, 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

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 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

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

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

If researchers don’t figure out why so few survived, an imperiled icon of the California desert may disappear even more quickly.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Now a wife and mother, Jane resides in upstate New York and makes a living rescuing imperiled citizens and providing them with new identities.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 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

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

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

As inflationary pressures persist, markets are betting that Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will probably tighten further even at the risk of imperiling growth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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

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

Jebabli, the National Guard official, denied imperilling migrants and said Coastguards were increasingly threatened at sea when stopping migrant boats.

From Reuters May 4, 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

Bradley asked Emily Lenzner, the communications director of Atlantic Media, to try to keep imperilling details out of the press.

From The New Yorker Jun. 24, 2015

He wished his daughter to be a countess; and for the purpose of gaining this object, without imperilling the happiness of his child, he knew no other young man so well adapted as Frederick.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert




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