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Add to those a declining catch, warming water which is pushing what Train called the lobster "sweet spot" out deeper and a shifting tariff policy, and Maine's singular coastal heritage industry is facing peril.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

And he fundamentally gets the peril we’ve put ourselves in by entrusting Zuckerberg, who is, at minimum, an ethically askew man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Frodo and Sam were plodding along with heavy hearts, no longer able to care greatly about their peril.

From "The Two Towers" 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

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

She found that becoming a caregiver held its own perils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

Her awareness of life’s perils convinced her that while I would be safe on the public conveyances, she “wasn’t about to trust a taxi driver with her baby.”

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

I was truly sorry to hear of the fate of that poor fellow who had periled so much for liberty.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

He was not wise in so doing, for his life was of far too much value to France to be thus needlessly periled.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

Was it because the bent of Miss Shirley was so academic that she was periling upon tomboyishness without knowing it in this primal inspiration of hers?

From Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells

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

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

He was still holding fast his faith in General McClellan, and this was steadily widening the breach between him and Congress, and periling the success of the war.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian

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

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

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

The Republicans greeted him with acclamation as the honored citizen of two republics, the man who had perilled life and health in rescuing his countrymen from slavery.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

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

He had been thinking more of her through that wild ride than of the friend whose life he was perilling his own to save.

From Round Anvil Rock A Romance by Nancy Huston Banks

"Ay, but methinks the Soldan might regard it as too unequal a mode of perilling the chance of a royal bride and the event of a great war," said the Emir.

From The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

Ten of these were serving in the Union army perilling their lives to maintain that national fabric, which their illustrious ancestor had done so much to establish.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

So he spoke solemnly to him, warning him against perilling his future by relapsing into his old courses in Charleston.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

“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