as in menaced
to remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress on
the powerful hurricane continues to threaten the southern coastline
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Recent Examples of threatened
Calmatters, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
The invasive species is dangerous to protected species in Florida, including the endangered Key Largo woodrat and the threatened wood stork.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Earlier this month, Minaj threatened to cancel plans for her sixth studio album and pointed at Jay-Z as a reason to blame.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The town eventually backed down in the face of threatened litigation.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
The invasive species is dangerous to protected species in Florida, including the endangered Key Largo woodrat and the threatened wood stork.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Even communities with few private schools feel threatened by the state’s push toward privatization.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Earlier this month, Minaj threatened to cancel plans for her sixth studio album and pointed at Jay-Z as a reason to blame.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for threatened
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Pop-culture figures like Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolfman are so ubiquitous as to be both movie characters and parodies of themselves, and this DuckTales episode is good for any kids that like monsters but aren’t quite ready to be menaced by them yet.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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The diplomatic declarations do nothing to help Palestinians in Gaza or those menaced by Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Right whales were heavily hunted until the 1960s - when the International Whaling Commission began to ban commercial whaling - and landed on the endangered species list in 1970.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Hollywood Historical Society posted about the endangered house on Facebook last summer, getting the attention of some residents who used to live in the house many years ago.—
Amanda Rosa
October 23,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Human intervention has helped to curb the effects on some of the most imperiled native species, and in some cases, even succeeded in recovery efforts, but the overarching threat of climate change persists.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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No other real-world island so powerfully conjures the horrors of incarceration with the natural beauty of an imperiled world, all in the shadow of a tech industry intent on bending the world into a new shape.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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However, from time to time mistakes will be made and we will not be held liable.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
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In August, the company was found partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash in Florida and was ordered to pay a total of about $240 million in compensatory costs and punitive damages.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In fact, the term itself was an epithet throughout the founding era, a way to describe ignorant and easily deceived popular majorities, perpetually vulnerable to demagogues.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The Jamaican government issued mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday for the most vulnerable coastal communities, per CNN.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The New Brunswick house also possessed a history of building code violations and officials have since declared the building to be an unsafe structure, according to NJ Advance Media.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In making the rule, the CPSC said there were 17 deaths in 2020 and at least 17 deaths in 2021 because of the contribution to unsafe sleeping conditions of infant loungers.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Unsurprisingly, people who live farther north are more susceptible than their southern counterparts because of the shorter daylight hours—so folks in Alaska and New Hampshire would statistically be at higher risk than their counterparts in Texas or Florida, say.—
Maggie O'Neill,
SELF,
20 Oct. 2025
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Some light fabrics are especially susceptible to staining from the minerals in water.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Defenseman Jacob Trouba stopped what seemed like a sure goal with his stick, helping goaltender Jakob Dostal by knocking away a shot headed toward an exposed side of the net.—
Josh Gross,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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Dolphins, being long-lived and highly exposed, can serve as nature's early warning system.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Threatened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threatened. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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