intimidations

noun

plural of intimidation
as in threats

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  1. threats
  2. menaces
  3. terrors
  4. pressures
Noun
  • Trump has repeated threats to take out power plants and other infrastructure.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The President’s campaign to seize control of the midterms has gone far beyond voter purges and threats to withhold federal funding.
    — Barton Gellman, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of threats
Noun
  • Since then, a growing movement across North America is attempting to transform ecological menaces into culinary commodities, from Florida to Hawai’i, British Columbia, Maine, and the Mississippi River basin.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Things don't go well, though, and menaces from across many realities show up to make a big mess.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of menaces
Noun
  • At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.
    — Claudia Boyd-Barrett, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Interestingly enough, facing the terrors of the world head-on is something that Danny mentions to Alice, too.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of terrors
Noun
  • If winter temperatures turn unusually cold, supply pressures could intensify further.
    — , CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • As interest rates increased, the value of those securities declined while deposit pressures increased.
    — Erik Clarke, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of pressures
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