as in to endanger
to place in danger
don't do anything that will jeopardize your place on the advisory board
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Recent Examples of jeopardize
If Musk prevails, the court could undo the company’s delicate restructuring of its for-profit arm—a decision that would jeopardize tens of billions in investor funding.
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Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
The Education Department said universities with a cohort default rate of more than 30 percent for each of the three most recent fiscal years could jeopardize its access to the Direct Loan program.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 21 Feb. 2026
The company said the more detailed analysis sought by regulators could delay the process and jeopardize landing the incentives.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
As the article notes, 80,000 Marylanders will be subject to these new requirements, potentially jeopardizing their ability to receive food assistance each month — all while food prices continue to rise.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
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Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
The Education Department said universities with a cohort default rate of more than 30 percent for each of the three most recent fiscal years could jeopardize its access to the Direct Loan program.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 21 Feb. 2026
The company said the more detailed analysis sought by regulators could delay the process and jeopardize landing the incentives.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
As the article notes, 80,000 Marylanders will be subject to these new requirements, potentially jeopardizing their ability to receive food assistance each month — all while food prices continue to rise.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jeopardize
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In this case, though, when Kelly landed from his jump, his foot came down on Yilmaz’s Achilles tendon and Kwiatkowski decided that his actions could endanger the safety of his opponent — an offence that warrants a straight red card instead of a yellow.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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He was convicted in December of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles, which carried a maximum penalty of life in prison.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Not long afterward, he was elected president on a platform deeply hostile to the West and its liberal ideology, and especially to the United States — threatening a hard fight in the event of war.—
Abbas Al Lawati,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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Ecologists have been trying to protect the delicate caves for years as development and pollution increasingly threaten the underwater waterways.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Jeopardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeopardize. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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