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The task today is to continue advancing the cause that he identified at Gettysburg: “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- the ambitious, long-term limit countries agreed to pursue under the 2015 Paris climate accord.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 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

The UN has also warned that they could perish "in such degrading conditions" if they do not receive medical care at once, calling their detention "inhumane".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

“Let them come. In me they shall find a sterner foe than Cleon. I would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage.”

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

"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

The enthusiasm with which the true artist starves for his art, or the martyr perishes for his conviction, can never be fully explained from the empirical standpoint.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The backstory of the works by the composers who perished is obviously compelling, but the lightning bolt that struck Conlon first was the music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

His letters testify to the biological and economic upheaval sweeping across the Mediterranean; Zucchello himself perished in the disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

The memorial service will honour more than 540 residents and all 35 engineers and electricians who perished when the ship sank on 15 April 1912.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Rescuers would take one look at where Magpie Island used to be and assume that Jonathan and Abby had perished there.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

They looked absolutely freezing, which was not a surprise as it was a perishing January night in Lancashire.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

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

“I thought you’d never ask. I’m perishing in this heat. My name is Earline Grantham, sir. Who are you?”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy