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Australia's top order showed a greater runscoring intent early in the chase only to perish to a mixture of poor strokeplay and impressive bowling.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Evolution occurs through random variation and natural selection: The strong survive and reproduce; the weak perish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put it simply in 1961, another era when it seemed America would split into pieces: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

And their daemons got to pump and pump all day and night, or else perish with ’em.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Another is a pungent work of terror about a cursed man who inexplicably perishes in the village’s crypt, forcing the townspeople to investigate by disinterring the bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

"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

Jack by the hedge, or sauce alone, is an annual plant, which perishes every year, but makes a figure in the spring, and is common in our hedges.

From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith

Accounts vary on how many perished; some say 17 including the captain's wife.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

I did not know then how many people had perished, but I knew countless families would be grieving that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Before the service began, a worshiper read aloud the names of some 200 parishioners who perished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Notably, neither scavengers nor flies that fed on the supposedly poisoned carcasses have perished -- creatures that typically succumb after consuming poisoned animals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

On other nights it was still, with such a stillness as one imagines as existing before the stars began to form, or after everything has perished.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Years of anecdotal reports from other golden lovers as well as scattershot studies seemed to support the idea that something was wrong: Were the big, sweet dogs now perishing earlier than their forebears?

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2023

And she claimed her second victim in her second over, Sarah Bryce perishing for 13 from nine balls when a mis-timed shot resulted in a leading edge that was easily gathered by wicketkeeper Nicole Faltum.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2023

“Will you tell us about the new house, Bull? I’m perishing from curiosity,” Lillian spoke.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy