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the state of not being protected from injury, harm, or evil
the city's firefighters routinely put their lives in jeopardy by executing daring rescues
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Join 40 others in the comments View Comments That has put into jeopardy a possible soft landing for the US economy — a scenario in which inflation is tamed without a sharp increase in unemployment.
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Bryan Mena, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
Opposition leader Lee, who narrowly lost to Yoon in 2022 and is favoured to win an election to replace him, is also in legal jeopardy, with a conviction on appeal and other rulings pending that could disqualify him from office.
—Joyce Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
But the media's use of the tired relegation narrative to generate jeopardy misses a broader, more interesting question about what drove the Catalan to commit more emphatically than his last two deals.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
This calming force can be at jeopardy with so many execs moving around.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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Bryan Mena, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
Opposition leader Lee, who narrowly lost to Yoon in 2022 and is favoured to win an election to replace him, is also in legal jeopardy, with a conviction on appeal and other rulings pending that could disqualify him from office.
—Joyce Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
But the media's use of the tired relegation narrative to generate jeopardy misses a broader, more interesting question about what drove the Catalan to commit more emphatically than his last two deals.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
This calming force can be at jeopardy with so many execs moving around.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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Read More: Time 100 AI: Francesca Mani Activists will seek legislative action related to other AI harms, including the vulnerability of consumer data and the dangers of companion chatbots causing self-harm.Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
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That should help other masters athletes be a little less paranoid about the dangers of an occasional training break.Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
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The Weather Prediction Center said in its Thursday afternoon forecast that there is a moderate risk of a swath of the Upper Midwest from northern North Dakota to eastern Wisconsin seeing more than six inches of snowfall.James Powel, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Watch your landing: Your landing should be soft to absorb the force of the jump and reduce injury risk.Sherri Gordon, Health, 19 Dec. 2024
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Pacifici shares an example where a buyer of a healthcare company inherited regulatory trouble from the previous owner, putting a third of the company’s revenue at risk and exposing it to potential fines.Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The more scientific term for this phenomenon is venous stasis—this condition occurs when the veins have trouble moving blood back to the heart, straining the cardiovascular system, Mustali Dohadwala, MD, a cardiologist in private practice at Heartsafe Boston, told Health.Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 17 Dec. 2024
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But to ignore the figures and the metrics is to do so at peril.Fiona Simpson, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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South Korea’s parliament voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol early Saturday morning, after a brief decree of martial law thrust the country into temporary political peril.Filip Timotija, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Jeopardy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeopardy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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