real threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrealandthreat
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real
adjective
uk/rɪəl/us/ˈriː.əl/
existing in fact and ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk/θret/us/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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(Definition ofrealandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreal threat
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Spanglish is not seen as arealthreat.
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It is now under an unspoken but veryrealthreat.
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Theirrealthreatis modernity (or, if you prefer, postmodernity).
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It could not pose arealthreatto the social order.
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However, in modern society therealthreatin most cases is psychological rather than physical.
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But therealthreatto the survival of community land came from another quarter.
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The majority of the parties were too weak and fragmented to offer anyrealthreat.
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Merely identifying one such factor poses norealthreatto the original argument.
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Isn't quality of that sort therealthreatto the public health?
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That is arealthreat.
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It is arealthreat.
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They pose arealthreat.
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This poses arealthreat.
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What is therealthreat?
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That is therealthreat.
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In summer and autumn 1941 the brutality of the anti-partisan campaign far outweighed therealthreat.
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Secondly, what the monks considered to be therealthreatfrom the secular college - the belittling of their special position.
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Dangerous as it is to ignore arealthreat, it is just as dangerous to misrepresent arealthreat.
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That is a veryrealthreat.
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This is a veryrealthreat.
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Poverty is therealthreathere.
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The directive is arealthreat.
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That was arealthreatlast week.
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Therefore, there is arealthreat.
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