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"This sounds theoretical and naive but you know you destroy nature at your peril and I think we see around the world the consequences of nature degradation," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Fashion giants on both sides of the Atlantic are underestimating the Chinese shopper at their own peril.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

At great peril they sometimes hunt the mammoth for its meat and its large bones and tusks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

And anybody — or “everybody,” per Adams — who doubts these Rams, does so at their own peril.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

There was no peril here, or desire for escape.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The movie also demonstrates the perils of trying to grasp hot topics of the moment via the agonizingly slow, multiyear Hollywood process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

She was also, in her own unique way, a dedicated revolutionary, rarely letting an opportunity pass to use her appearance to point out the perils and absurdity of stereotyping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even so, as he described to me in his office, perils remain, especially for Muslim candidates.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

I held house parties and card parties to help keep them entertained at home and so they would be safe from segregation’s sting as well as its perils.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

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

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

He was re-elected in 1792 and in 1796 was elected President of that Republic for which he had freely periled life, fortune and honor.

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

In the plague of Alexandria, six hundred parabolani periled their lives to succour the dying and bury the dead.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow

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

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

He reconnoitred every available point, searched every corner of possible danger, and as the time passed he began to rage with impatience against Dick, whose delay was now periling the success of the enterprise.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

It was the unhandsome treatment of himself and reckless periling of the character and interests of his Expedition in order to shield others, that raised his indignation.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie

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

His feelings toward the devoted and interesting maiden, who had perilled and suffered so much on his account, were enthusiastic in the highest degree.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

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

Never before did so much seem to have been won, because never before did so much seem to have been perilled.

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

Freedom, patriotism, and humanity demand the union of the freemen of the Republic, for the sake of liberty now perilled.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett

The editor could dedicate his paper to the service of Janus, the two-faced deity, and thus pursue his business without perilling his reputation for religious consistency.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 by Various

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

“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

But what was to be done with my dear wounded friend, who had saved my life by perilling his own?

From Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping by Theodore P. Wilson