jeopardized

past tense of jeopardize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of jeopardized The judge also ordered officials to refrain from removing any more objects from the museum’s exhibits, alleging that the rights of Colombians to free expression and historical memory could be jeopardized. — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026 Mische argues that without adequate fuel reserves for a shortage — like during a war — our military readiness could be jeopardized. — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Each state could use its health department or university system to establish production facilities to manufacture vaccines jeopardized by federal policy. — Joel Dodge, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026 The health pact had been jeopardized by privacy concerns over sharing citizens’ data. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026 As Ruben and Gus form an unlikely friendship, the bond is jeopardized when both men’s pasts threaten to catch up with them. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026 When regulations begin to overlap, permitting and building are jeopardized through financial and practical burdens. — Bennett Lawson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026 Marlene Nuechterlein, who lives on Lincoln Street, said frequent outages jeopardized her and her husband’s health because both use CPAP machines at night to manage sleep apnea. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2026 The extended delay and the fee could have potentially jeopardized the deal altogether. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jeopardized
Verb
  • The money will go to conservation groups and local partners working on species the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies as endangered, critically endangered, or extinct in the wild.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • One key objection was the mature tone of the narrative, in which the child protagonist is directly confronted and endangered by the evils derived from fascist ideologies.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Torres threatened to expose the relationship to her employer.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But the rumor of ad sales led to an insurrection on Spanish-language Wikipedia, which threatened to break away.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The company had previously said a penalty in the billions of dollars risked violating its constitutional rights to due process and protection from excessive fines.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Jeopardized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeopardized. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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