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jeopardy

noun as in danger, trouble

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Another impact of the Colombo rain and the quiet group stage was that the tournament lacked any jeopardy, there were no shocks or surprises which make World Cups in any sport so special.

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The closing stages were enlivened by raised tensions rather than any scoreboard jeopardy.

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The judge decreed there were “reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure” to Mr. Cruz “will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”

There was a huge wave of news, not to mention continued fallout from Fed Chair Jerome Powell putting a December rate cut in jeopardy.

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Unless those buyers can entirely evade the U.S. financial system and the long arm of the Treasury, transactions with the firms would place them in jeopardy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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