endangered

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“Over recent weeks, individuals have repeatedly forced their way into Church properties on Hollywood Boulevard, disrupted religious and public facilities, damaged Church property, and endangered staff, parishioners and visitors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

But the destruction of forests means that woodland caribou are threatened or endangered, and the population in Jasper National Park is so small that it is heading toward extinction.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

The threat of artificial-intelligence tools has stirred fears about the future of software and what might happen to loans in the sector—but not all software companies are equally endangered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Seven years ago, just 50 pine hoverflies were thought to inhabit a single woodland site and the species is still considered critically endangered.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Both telescope and microscope produced new knowledge, but in the seventeenth century only the telescope directly endangered the existing order.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton