real danger

collocation in English

meaningsofrealanddanger

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real
adjective
uk
/rɪəl/
us
/ˈriː.əl/
existing in fact and ...
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danger
noun
uk
/ˈdeɪn.dʒər/
us
/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/
the possibility of harm or death ...
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(Definition ofrealanddangerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreal danger

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While we argue about whether there is arealdangeror not, it may already be over us.
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What continues to make conducting ethical research problematic is therealdangerof its exploitation for evil purposes.
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If these companies all introduce terminator technology, there is arealdangerthat farmers may not be able to have a choice.
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Such fears served to magnify therealdanger.
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If it is arealdanger, what are our best chances to avoid it?
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The yards of dangling fabric were another, morerealdangerto the horsewoman.
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But they cannot think; we are in norealdangerof being subjected.
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Foreign-policy options are severely limited if an external threat is immediate and perceived to constitute arealdanger.
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The postulation of these basic and spontaneous urges to be aggressive and territorial is therealdangerof the popularizers.
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There was therealdangerthat they would concentrate on the 'facts'.
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Much of this fossil folklore has remained unwritten and the contemporary decline in storytelling means that some oral legends are inrealdangerof vanishing.
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Thus, therealdangerinherent in this dynamic systems approach is not in its appreciation of the beauty of the interaction between organisms but in its appeal to anthropomorphism.
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However, the two input conditions would then be quite different and there is also arealdangerthat boredom with the testing situation would quickly set in.
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I agree with the authors that therealdangerto archaeology is not the lapse into relativism, but the unreflecting acceptance of a monolithic view of the past.
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Without this there is arealdangerthat the definition of utterances as rote-learned or productive is either arbitrary or, even more worryingly, the result of systematic theoretical biases.
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I was aware of therealdangerthat respondents may take over the control of the interview, thinking that whatever they said would be relevant or important to my research.
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To develop a loving character requires people in bad need of our love, and to develop a courageous character requires suffering or therealdangerof it.
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Consequently, there is arealdangerthat disasters will occur.
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That was and still is arealdanger.
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In general terms, therefore, there is a veryrealdangerthat the situation of some endangered species will be called into question.
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