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It’s not just the beautiful landscape and the family estate that are in peril in the fresh and funny staging of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” at the Park Avenue Armory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In places like Minneapolis and Des Moines, Iowa, insurers are factoring in hail and severe convective storms, ICE added, which is a “a peril that is frequently overlooked but is now driving double-digit increases.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Underestimate the Golden Cougars at your own peril.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

But many observers, from MPs to legal experts, say the whole system is in peril.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

‘If you go forward, peril will grow with every mile, even if you find a path.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But that same episode illustrated the perils of trusting markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

But by steering the live-action Prime Video adaptation directly into the anxieties of the zeitgeist, showrunner Eric Kripke has transformed the superhero satire into a terrifying tale about the perils of authoritarianism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

If we call the cops on teens violating a city curfew, it suggests a cavalier attitude toward the perils of the justice system.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Yet Johns abstract warnings of the perils of the unshielded cyclotron had less visceral impact on the staff than the fate of the very first mouse he irradiated with neutrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The Count de Fersen, a most noble-spirited young gentleman from Sweden, most cheerfully periled his life in undertaking the exterior arrangements of this hazardous enterprise.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

He exacted the utmost consideration for his men, and the officer who periled their safety, or disputed their efficiency, was quickly called to account.

From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

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

When I found myself a prisoner, I thought I would try this door before periling the sleep of a patient in the small-pox.

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

I am that Swedish child he saved from the river Rhine, periling life and limb, losing his sight for me.

From Darkness and Daylight by Mary Jane Holmes

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

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

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

Would that he could have fought single-handed—he alone—and perilled, and have lost his life!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

They perilled all upon the issue; and the issue went against them.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler) Hosmer

Discovery would not only have perilled my own life, but also have involved those of my kind protectors.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

Directly he seemed to have the end in his hand, and they saw him stretch the left arm as if to throw it around the body of the perilled man.

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

He professed gratitude for the many favors he had received from the monarch, a gratitude he had never tired of making known by perilling life and property in that prince's cause.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

But he answered, that "he could not stop to calculate chances, when his subjects were perilling their lives for his sake;" a reply, says Pulgar, which endeared him to the whole army.

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

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

One of these rocks—Longstone Island—Grace Darling rendered memorable by her intrepidity in perilling her life during the storm of September, 1838.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

It is not impossible, however, that in taking this step I may be perilling my own safety.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever