perish
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Evolution occurs through random variation and natural selection: The strong survive and reproduce; the weak perish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Instead, there are scores of planets and moons where humans, if exposed to local conditions without life support, would perish immediately.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
It’s still uncertain how many of the trees it scorched will perish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- a threshold just years away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025
"Come on, Papi," his daughters coaxed him, as if it were a modesty of his, to perish, and they had to talk him into staying alive.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
"We need to get the food out as soon as we can before it perishes," Steele said.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
When the cells die, their myelin production perishes with them, causing myelin sheaths to break down with nothing to replenish them.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
West of the Cascades, many a plant perishes due to excessive rain in winter, even though it’s cold hardy and “drought-tolerant.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
The two-part sixth, and final, season of “The Crown” explores Princess Diana’s final days before she perishes in a car accident.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
And so long as the youth remains there, or presses forward, they never leave him, the whole battalion perishes first.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
But the hard truths of human nature bring us closer to the people who perished in Pompeii.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
A Chicago jury began deliberations Wednesday afternoon in a suit brought against Boeing by family members of a 24-year-old American who perished in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Official records list disease as the cause of death for most of the boys who perished.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
She tries to create the most outlandish tale possible for when relaying to guests one on one how her husband perished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
One very stormy night the light was blown out by the wind and Leander perished.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024
The young meat-eater had chomped off the hind legs of two parrot-like dinosaurs called caenagnathids before perishing itself.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023
Levin yelled out into the roar, anything to take his mind off the thought of perishing in a landslide.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
"We need to save people from perishing before they can be liberated from al-Shabab," Prof Samatar says.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022
‘The perishing is more likely, and will be a lot easier anyway,’ he said grimly to himself, as he sheathed Sting and turned from the brazen doors.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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