imperil
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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
Ms. Khan’s goal was to delay mergers, which could imperil the financing for some.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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
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 dispute imperils the port, which generates $61 billion in economic activity annually for the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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
Hall is very aware of how climate change imperils his harvest.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 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
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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
In 2024, state officials worked with the Biden administration to set new rules for operating California’s main water delivery systems, saying they aim to protect imperiled fish and reliably provide water for Californians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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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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
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
The former negotiations have placed your military position in great danger; shall your political position be also imperilled?
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
Letting them keep a campaign promise without imperiling his bid to lead the caucus would be a win-win.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
She said they are afraid that the $44,000 yearly insurance bill is imperiling their retirement plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 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
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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
To protect the house against the hazardous affects of imperilling winds, long poles are made to prop the somewhat dilapidated shanty.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
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