noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fraught
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Though tantalisingly seductive, they were fraught with peril .
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No matter where you begin, the road to the Final Four is fraught with peril .
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That undertaking would be fraught with enormous peril too.
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And the road is long and fraught with peril .
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They were demonstrating that life on the Web is fraught with peril .
great
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It is not civil war that is the greatest peril but anarchy.
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But Lugar calls nuclear terror the greatest peril of our age.
yellow
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But the yellow peril of Mrs Slocombe's hairdo caused a problem for the dynamic of the show.
■ VERB
ignore
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Were voices from the dark yet knowing part of oneself, voices you ignored only at your peril .
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He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril .
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Mourning can have a therapeutic function that we ignore at our peril .
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Similarly, lessons from across the world show that early warning signs of conflict are ignored at our peril .
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The Shuttle/Redgrove thesis states that periods have meaning, and we ignore it at our peril .
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The Phillips curve was regarded as an inescapable constraint on policy action which the authorities could only ignore at their peril .
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Politicians espouse it; government departments ignore it at their peril .
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He ignores them at his peril .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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None of us who set off on that calm September morning could have foreseen the perils that lay ahead.
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the perils of a life at sea
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Lugar calls nuclear terror the greatest peril of our age.
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Elizabeth continued reading her latest library book, oblivious to my possible peril .
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Great perils lay before them, and some of them paid with their lives for drinking that peerless elixir.
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His playoff streak is in peril this season.
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Into this potent politicization of what remained, at heart, a medical mystery, scientists ventured at their peril .
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Mourning can have a therapeutic function that we ignore at our peril .
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Similarly, lessons from across the world show that early warning signs of conflict are ignored at our peril .
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The differences exist, and we remain ignorant of them at our peril .