DANGERS Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

dangers

noun

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 If deployed in the Strait of Hormuz, naval crews would be hoping for fewer dangers if the ceasefire holds. —

ABC News, 16 June 2026 Family, issued the warning about the dangers of hot springs after Bobbie, then 5, came down with a sudden high fever last year. —

Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026 The Big 12 has long spoken out about the dangers of sports wagering by student-athletes and remains committed to protecting the competitive integrity of conference competition. —

Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2026 The November killing of Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, the popular mayor of Uruapan, Michoacan, highlighted dangers for politicians who stand up to cartels and criminal groups. —

Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026 The Luke Roux Foundation continued its mission of raising awareness of the life threatening dangers of impaired driving, at the baseball field in Farmington where Luke grew up playing on as its backdrop. —

Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026 The real question is whether Fable actually needed this level of restriction, or whether Anthropic oversold the dangers of Mythos to justify the company’s safety-first positioning. —

Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026 Across from me, a woman with very beautiful eyes was looking at a poster about the dangers of smoking. —

Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 Sell-offs like the ones last Friday and today are a good lesson in the dangers of chasing parabolic moves and failing to take profits. —

Jeff Marks, CNBC, 9 June 2026

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Sakahara later told his son he’d been beaten and kicked and only buckled after officers began to direct the threats at people around him, said Koji, who had confronted his father about his confession.

— Yumi Asada, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
Damaging wind gusts and large hail are the main threats, and a tornado or two can’t be ruled out, especially in mid- to late afternoon in parts of eastern Kansas and western Missouri.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026