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Underestimate the Golden Cougars at your own peril.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

"Wildfire risk has so far accounted for only a relatively small share of insured losses in Europe. Yet it is the fastest-growing weather peril globally," the company said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

This is the backdrop to comments from Steve Reed, the former communities secretary and doughty defender of Sir Keir at some of his moments of most intense peril.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

GM and the broader U.S. industry still face potential peril.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Do you not remember how eagerly he urged that no man should be spared on a wildgoose chase northward, when the immediate peril was westward?

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Just a couple of days before that now-infamous blog post, the firm inadvertently provided a different, no-less-perfect example of the perils of mass digitization.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The perils of leaving a five-star review on a wing and a prayer.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

What could they teach us about the power and perils of hero worship in a community that has produced too few figures of Chávez’s stature?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

“ProPublica’s reporting shows the perils of not having this law,” Rubin said.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

The Hobbits were grieved at this parting; for Aragorn had never failed them and he had been their guide through many perils.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

We all realize that we live in periled times, and our nation must be prepared to defend itself at a moment's notice.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night last week an old dog periled the Earl's new job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether Franklin Roosevelt consciously led the U.S. to war, or hoped to keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

In so doing he periled his life, as he had placed his name upon the Declaration of Independence—then sneeringly called the death warrant of the signers by the Tories and their coadjutors—the British.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

"Uncounted gold shall be given to the man whose brave right hand, For the love of the periled city, plucks down yon burning brand!"

From Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" by Various

Justice Department attorneys respond that fears about Snepp's being a loose cannon periling the First Amendment rights of all sorts of people are greatly exaggerated.

From Time Magazine Archive

You may answer me, if you please, with a similar analogy, "Who would not prefer the amputation of an arm to the periling of life by doubt and procrastination!"

From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan

But her periling her life to save him from an unjust accusation, and her desire to shield her brother's pride from ridicule, is altogether praiseworthy and extraordinary.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte

It was impossible to touch the mud of Paris without periling the subsistence of eighteen hundred persons.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

And you, sir, a citizen of high standing and repute, were detected in the act of transferring many of these important papers to a spy, thus periling the safety of the nation.

From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage.

From Time Magazine Archive

In that case," said Nina, quietly, "Mademoiselle has only perilled herself for nothing.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

We must not condemn the popular scrupulousness of 1789 as puerile and foolish, until we too have perilled life and fortune in the cause of liberty and equality.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

When a moral disease so fearful as this appears, parents should never rest till they have found the seat of it, and convinced the perilled child of the deadly nature of its malady.

From Household Education by Harriet Martineau

Is this young prince mad," they whispered one to another, "to risk the loss of that for which he perilled his life?

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe

We saw him t’other night perilling his life to stop the poor crazy prentices, and save the foreigners. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge

"I give thee my gage," said the cavalier, "with this understanding, then, that I am free to fly, whenever I may do so without perilling thy life, and the life of Jacinto."

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

She felt extreme reluctance in perilling her home.

From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

Is she a prisoner like myself? or is she disguised, and perilling her life to save mine? or can she be—Patience!

From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

God forbid I should think of my own safety, when so many of the faithful are perilling theirs!

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott