as in to endanger
to place in danger
a scandal that could seriously jeopard his political career
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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,
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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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But experts, diplomats, Cuban Americans and Cuban private entrepreneurs have been warning the administration that a complete halt of oil supplies would risk the country’s total collapse, since the population was already enduring a profound humanitarian crisis.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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Public acknowledgment of the clash risked escalating into direct confrontation between nuclear powers, a step that, in 1952, many feared could ignite a third world war.—
Steven Beynon,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Jeopard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeopard. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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