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How to pronounce“threaten”in English

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In natural English speech, "threaten" appears in contexts such as: "it being a hedgeimon is the ability to do the following in this paper is to threaten foreign entities that if they don't comply with what the hedgeimon wants they're going to lose access to a set of input that the hedgeimon controls. So for the purpose of today I'm going to focus on threats not to". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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it being a hedgeimon is the ability to do the following in this paper is to

threaten foreign entities that if they don't comply with what the hedgeimon wants they're going to lose access to a

set of input that the hedgeimon controls. So for the purpose of today I'm going to focus on threats not to

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verb

To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

“No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.”

verb

To menace, or be dangerous.

“The rocks threatened the ship's survival.”

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