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noun as in agreement, give-and-take

verb as in come to an agreement

verb as in put in jeopardy

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blight, discredit, dishonor, explode, expose, hazard, implicate, menace, peril, risk, spoil

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It includes a plotline in which the British Security Services want to retrieve some compromising photographs of Princess Margaret, allegedly held in a security box by Trinidadian militant gangster Michael X.

However, when subunits are mutated or USP39 is absent, the stability of the tripartite complex is compromised, causing the spliceosome to lose precision.

Professor Carola Paul adds: "Our study has contributed to finding compromise solutions to manage the increasingly diverse demands on forests and forest management by society."

I don’t want to be self-righteous; we all make compromises.

Having an attorney general with so much potentially compromising dirt on him could be an asset, it being hard to say “no” to someone would could arguably ruin you.