- present tense form of threaten (3rd person singular).
threatens
Example Sentences
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Just weeks after Hurricane Marie brought massive waves, flooding and destruction to the Long Beach peninsula, another tempest threatens the coastal enclave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The rise of AI shopping agents threatens to disrupt traditional e-commerce and online-advertising models, according to Pivotal’s Wlodarczak.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
He threatens a network, and the network gets a bump in attention.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But there are easily a couple hundred undead moving toward us, many newly turned and moving so quickly that for a moment a dark wave of fear threatens to drown me.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
