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- noun Plural form of
jeopardy .
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Examples
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Baseball's lawyer is crying foul because the committee could jeopardies coming criminal trials.
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Johnson himself turned to Soulé, well known by then for his work on small-population jeopardies.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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I just wanted you to pass your eyes across such a panoply of biological jeopardies.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Johnson himself turned to Soulé, well known by then for his work on small-population jeopardies.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The number of extinctions “should be inversely related to reserve size” because (a) reserve size will determine population size for each species and (b) small populations face special jeopardies.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The number of extinctions “should be inversely related to reserve size” because (a) reserve size will determine population size for each species and (b) small populations face special jeopardies.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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I just wanted you to pass your eyes across such a panoply of biological jeopardies.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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She had scarce made up her mind how he should be informed of the jeopardies that menaced his guest, whose skaithless departure with Olivia was even, from her point of view, a thing wholly desirable, when the Baron appeared himself.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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But yet so, that they be more circumspect in avoiding and eschewing jeopardies, than they be desirous of praise and renown.
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Saving that to them which have thoroughly decreed and determined with themselves to roam headlong the contrary way, it cannot be acceptable and pleasant, because it calleth them back, and showeth them the jeopardies.
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