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- verb Present participle of
endanger .
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Examples
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Anybody, Republican or Democratic, calling for less safety regulations which result in endangering employee lives, is unpatriotic at BEST.
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Rav Moshe Feinstein, who died in 1986, based his heter on the argument that the prohibition of V’nishmartem applies only to short-term endangering of oneself.
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How about the idea of endangering public safety if English were the official language?
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Not only would the idea of endangering the life of a human being have been horrible to him, but the sanctity of an oath was imperative to him.
Phineas Redux 2004
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"The men are not interested in the welfare of Vepajans," he reminded us, "and they may resent the idea of endangering their lives and risking their new-found liberty in a venture that means nothing whatever to them."
Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962
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Not only would the idea of endangering the life of a human being have been horrible to him, but the sanctity of an oath was imperative to him.
Phineas Redux 1873
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Not only would the idea of endangering the life of a human being have been horrible to him, but the sanctity of an oath was imperative to him.
Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848
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Yet it's the missile strike, and not the mortars, which is described as endangering the truce.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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Yet it's the missile strike, and not the mortars, which is described as endangering the truce.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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Those who support this policy but are attacking WikiLeaks for releasing this data need to take a good, hard look in the mirror before they jump on Julian Assange for "endangering" anyone.
Derrick Crowe: Busting White House Spin on WikiLeaks: No Leak Required Derrick Crowe 2010
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