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Does he want to do the same, and put his court in similar peril?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Rep. Jimmy Gomez’s reelection bid, once helped by his high-profile fight against President Trump’s immigration policies, is in peril as he tries to recover from allegations of sexual misconduct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Joe Barrett chronicles Stafford’s unraveling and the growing peril of digital love traps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

This moment of peril illustrates the layers making up the modern battlefield.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Soon there was great peril of fire behind the wall, and all who could be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places.

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

Wilshere, who is aiming to guide Luton to promotion to the Championship this season, felt one of his managerial strengths was being able to warn his young players of the perils of professional football.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, the series follows five 20-something housemates in Queens as they navigate the pleasures and perils of early adulthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

But that same episode illustrated the perils of trusting markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The road ahead was full of perils, he knew, but what of it?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

Obeying what he conceived to be the mandate of his State, he followed the impulse of his feelings and the example of his kindred and his friends, and periled all in that belief.

From Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session by Various

Let us, the Living, rather dedicate Ourselves to the unfinished work, which they Thus far advanced so nobly on its way, And saved the periled State!

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd

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

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

What!—already faint-hearted!—A miracle of beauty such as Darville described is well worth periling one's neck to gaze upon.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

Too comfortable in his feelings to keep still, as indeed was indispensable to the most steady among us, he kept constantly lurching about, and periling us with a capsizing repeatedly.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

As to her periling her life, those Marsh people are amphibious anyway, or would be in those clothes.

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

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

While I love my country as well as any man, and in this enterprise cheerfully perilled my life to serve it, I was only his co-worker: I should not have undertaken it alone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

Lester, he will not release the bird for which he has perilled so much," she said, with frank confidence in her tones, "and we must devise some means to save both him and his prize.

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

A vague presentiment whispered within me that the happiness of my whole life was at stake,—perhaps perilled for ever.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Beyond this, and with reference to any possibility of saving the perilled man, he was probably quite as much in the dark as any of the others.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

He had lost caste, he feared, with Pledge, and he was running into the enemy’s country and perilling not only himself, but Dick, in the venture.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

“If I did unwisely in advising resistance, and perilling your lives as well as my own, I now ask your forgiveness; on my own account I do not regret it.”

From The Island Home by Dalziel

How should she separate these two beautiful faiths which had been enthroned as one in the happy depths of her guileless heart, without perilling her very trust in God!

From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

That wife, whom it is your greatest pleasure to win to smiles, wears a half-sad look as she meets these proofs of love; she fears that you are perilling too much for her pleasure.

From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell

She was perilling her own in order to accompany and assist his expedition.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett