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perdition

[per-dish-uhn] / pərˈdɪʃ ən /


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Mr. Chabal, a professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, is sympathetic but not so much of a fellow traveler as to follow his subject down the road to perdition.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

If so, which people are allowed in and which are banished to perdition, if not sentenced to be annihilated?

From Salon Jul. 29, 2023

People inundating us with spurious claims of knowledge feel free to condemn to perdition those who doubt their authority.

From Washington Post Jul. 29, 2022

But that’s really just another way of saying the company is still losing millions buying movie tickets, with no obvious path out of financial perdition.

From Slate May 8, 2018

I was condemned to eternal perdition if I was going to be able to call my own sister ‘Miss Tansy.’

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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