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
Recovering from a pregnancy would postpone attempts to rack up more medals, jeopardizing her income.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 June 2025
Structural Enablement Unidentified friction points can jeopardize your performance infrastructure.
—Bala Sathyanarayanan, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Fiji had long stayed neutral on Middle Eastern issues, wary of jeopardizing the work of the hundreds of Fijian soldiers who serve as U.N. peacekeepers.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
And if that's not enough, the bill also attacks clean energy tax credits, which would jeopardize hundreds of thousands of union jobs across the country and push the American energy sector into crisis.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 June 2025
Structural Enablement Unidentified friction points can jeopardize your performance infrastructure.
—Bala Sathyanarayanan, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Fiji had long stayed neutral on Middle Eastern issues, wary of jeopardizing the work of the hundreds of Fijian soldiers who serve as U.N. peacekeepers.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
And if that's not enough, the bill also attacks clean energy tax credits, which would jeopardize hundreds of thousands of union jobs across the country and push the American energy sector into crisis.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jeopardize
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These strikes were precise and limited—aimed not at the Iranian people, but at the violent ideology that endangers them too.—
Dan Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Only in the contiguous United States did citizens require high-budget movies to understand the chain of events by which the war might endanger their homes.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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But the legal wrangling over the preventive coverage mandates also threatened to put at risk access to preventive care.—
June 27,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
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The children are then threatened with many fictional stories, ending with them being kidnapped by Lu Mamau, who, by putting them in his sack, takes them with him forever, far away to his dark and unknown lair.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
27 June 2025
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“Jeopardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeopardize. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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