- present participle of menace.
menacing
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The total allotments to the three downstream states could be cut by as much as 40% through 2036, menacing their economies and communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
You see their runs are really menacing, so I felt they were knocking on the door.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
All of which is to concede that, while Cohn’s historic significance is, at best, minimal, his status as a menacing specter in the minds of liberal journalists has only grown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Released in June, the group’s fourth album, “Escrito en Agua,” is a bohemian tour de force — a bewitching combination of freestyle poetry, menacing Krautrock, melancholy shades of jazz and post-rock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
She raises her eyes to me slowly with the menacing gaze a J-horror yurei might level on their guilty victim.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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