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  • verb Present participle of endanger.

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Examples

  • Anybody, Republican or Democratic, calling for less safety regulations which result in endangering employee lives, is unpatriotic at BEST.

    Think Progress » Corporate Front Group Funded By Coal Industry Scorns Widow Of Mine Disaster: ‘Everyone Wants Free Money’ (Updated) 2010

  • 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.

    a) About Dang Time and b) Hah! - Danya Ruttenberg 2006

  • How about the idea of endangering public safety if English were the official language?

    CNN Transcript May 22, 2006 2006

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Yet it's the missile strike, and not the mortars, which is described as endangering the truce.

    CAMERA Snapshots 2009

  • Yet it's the missile strike, and not the mortars, which is described as endangering the truce.

    CAMERA Snapshots 2009

  • 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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