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peril

noun as in danger, risk

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At the EPA, Trump has already put more than 1,000 workers on notice that their jobs are in peril, and throughout the 2024 campaign he vowed to completely gut the agency.

From Salon

She added that perishable crops, including strawberries, lettuce, and dairy, face immediate peril because “trade disruptions can mean spoilage, financial losses and long-term lost market share that was earned over decades.”

Do so at your own peril, Hudson reportedly warned — it'll only get worse.

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Hackman enters with a genial familiarity only to make it very clear that the Klan will underestimate him at its peril.

“The Brutalist” is a film, in part, about the perils of unbound creativity, but Corbet manages to prove his own film wrong by assembling the most monumental achievement of any of the five nominees.

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