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Mr. Dykes’s neighbors often wandered over to the cameras to offer their opinions of “the mean man” or “the shovel man” who had menaced those around his patch of soil for nearly two years.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2013

From its fields Jap planes had menaced U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furthermore, said Clark, Pearson had menaced him with a "threatening gesture" just before he bopped Pearson in the lobby of Washington's Mayflower Hotel.

From Time Magazine Archive

They thought the thing that had menaced the city for years had been captured, that all would be well from hereon.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray