- present tense form of threaten (3rd person singular).
threatens
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The police cannot shoot a fleeing suspect unless the suspect’s conduct threatens death or serious injury to the officer or others.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Scientists have uncovered a promising new way to protect some of the world's most important food crops from a destructive fungus that threatens global food security.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Oil also sets the price of AI’s money and threatens AI’s buildings, both at once.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
U.S. stocks could face a serious test in 2027 as a tsunami of new equity issuance threatens to upend the artificial-intelligence-driven bull market, according to hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Even as fighting threatens to break out all around him, Lee waits, unruffled.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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