threatened

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The latter is what gives the symbols meaning and humans are not threatened by the former.

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Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

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adjective

Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

adjective

(especially ecology, of an organism) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for threatened.

adjective

Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

adjective

(especially ecology, of an organism) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

Example sentences

The latter is what gives the symbols meaning and humans are not threatened by the former.

So Craigslist's interpretation winning, compared to EFF's, ultimately means more people threatened with 1-10 years in federal prison.

> The latter is what gives the symbols meaning and humans are not threatened by the former.

I don't think the web is seriously threatened by native platforms.

They were threatened to be fired and they stayed on course and ended up keeping their jobs.

The rule was shot down and the SEC was threatened with losing their funding if they did this by some 50 senators.

Google is having some anti-monopoly issues in European Union (not unlike Microsoft in the past), and Russia threatened to ban Google altogether.

Almost certainly it was illegal, yes, certainly highly dubious process which at one point threatened to being down the European Commission president.

The best part is, fostering the idea of teaching each other means that others can mentor YOU as well on things, and you (and they) don't need to feel threatened.

So: how is taxation different from extortion, besides that we're threatened with imprisonment instead of violence?

Old 'conservative' people decrying taxes and welfare yet exploiting it as much as possible for themselves, and organizing in force whenever it is threatened.

So do his employees, whose livelihoods are now threatened as well.

Quote examples

You said "humans are not threatened by the former".

>humans are not threatened by the former So you categorically reject the scenario of a machine "processing meaningless symbols" being harmful in any way?

-what's in it for us?!" or "how is taxation different from extortion, besides that we're threatened with imprisonment instead of violence?".

From my observations, the 'No true X' Fallacy comes into play when a person identifies himself with his skill...it becomes his identity so much that if he encounteres someone better at "his" skill, he feels his identity threatened.