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menaces 1 of 2

noun

plural of menace

as in threats

something that may cause injury or harm a loaded gun is a menace that this household doesn't need

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menaces

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verb

present tense third-person singular of menace

as in endangers

to place in danger menaced the children by leaving them in the car unattended

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as in threatens

to remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress on stockpiles of nuclear weapons that continue to menace the inhabitants of this planet

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Things don't go well, though, and menaces from across many realities show up to make a big mess. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026 There are some crazy laser rays, goofy wipe transitions, robots who are menaces to society, to be sure. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026 Those menaces to society take their street tactics with them behind bars and prey on each other. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026 Her recent work revives a dreamy Renaissance style to show its absurd incompatibility with the raging, petulant menaces in whom the world’s power is concentrated. — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026 Our roads are concussion- and whiplash-inducing menaces. — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026 But the ability to beat back our more routine pathological menaces is a good indicator of the country’s ability to take on bigger, more virulent threats. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026 His job is to help fight these teeny-tiny menaces. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025 Perhaps the most familiar trope of Scooby-Doo stories is the resolution, where our investigators unmask the human villains who are menaces dressed as monsters. — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025

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The Air Force says this architecture should allow new technologies to be incorporated as threats and requirements change.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
And then hit a wall, which was the deadline for placing it on the June ballot with other things coming up in Sacramento — real threats to the power of transfer taxes, to the power of our city to have transfer taxes at all.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of threats

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Similarly, a citizen who violates technology export or import regulations could be banned from leaving if the action endangers industrial or technological security, the regulation says.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Osborn said the practice endangers both officers and other inmates.

— Paul Egan, Freep.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of endangers

Verb

This is, of course, the conception of fundamentalist theology, which threatens eternal hellfire for anyone who defies its commandments.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
As a result, the rise in diesel costs threatens to worsen a surge of inflation set off by the outbreak of the Iran war nearly seven months ago.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of threatens

Noun

Researchers think this happens because swapping stories about social bonds, unexpected dangers and survival are advantageous for our evolution.

— Hannah Little, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2026
The collapse last week wasn’t the first involving unsafe dwellings in the Gaza Strip, but the high death toll underscored the dangers in a territory where the vast majority of the population lacks adequate shelter.

— Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of dangers

Verb

By cutting the number of working holiday visas, critics say, the government risks causing more economic pain.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
That may be particularly troubling to Washington, where intelligence officials have already voiced concern that a potential advanced fighter jet sale to Saudi Arabia risks the technology being transferred to China, The New York Times reported.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026

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