dangers

plural of danger
as in threats
something that may cause injury or harm willing to face the dangers of the Arctic in quest of the Northwest Passage

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Recent Examples of dangers Also as is custom, adults will fret about the mostly mythical dangers children may face. — Muizz Akhtar, Vox, 30 Oct. 2026 The killing underscores the dangers facing Mexican local leaders who challenge cartels, as President Claudia Sheinbaum faces pressure to confront organized crime and corruption. — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 But experts warn about the dangers of additional players on a crowded urban battlefield. — CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026 Like many animals, rising sea levels threaten to eradicate the spider’s current West Coast habitat, while invasive species pose additional dangers. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026 While scuba diving, the dangers of your equipment failing or decompression sickness can be as lethal as some of the difficulties astronauts face during their spacewalks. — Michaela Musilova, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026 Even that expansion presents dangers, the company acknowledged, because more traditional science and research is outside its current area of expertise. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026 Tech investors sound cautiously optimistic about Anthropic's S-1 public offering document , despite persistent concerns about the future of AI and dangers of the technology. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026 For China’s military, the war in Ukraine offers a running demonstration of those dangers and an opportunity to study them without exposing its own forces to combat. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
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Noun
  • Neither seems ready to compromise at a time when Poland faces growing security threats – with the war across the border in Ukraine, and sabotage attacks inside Poland that Tusk has attributed to Russia.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Fiscal threats from Washington are putting our financial future at risk.
    — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • After the time change in November, however, those risks are lower.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, electronics, critical minerals To address these risks, FORTRESS calls for strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, electronics, critical minerals, medical supplies and spare parts.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Cotality ranked states using a risk-scoring model that measures the severity and likelihood of extreme-weather perils.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Iñárritu and screen writer Guillermo Arriaga involve six families, most of them not known to one another, in four countries on three continents in their story of random fate and the perils of being unable to communicate.
    — Ray Bennett, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026

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“Dangers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dangers. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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