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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 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

It’s still uncertain how many of the trees it scorched will perish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- a threshold just years away.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025

And if you don’t, the gods will die, the world we know will perish, and everyone from your old life will be destroyed.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

The loss of the first two senses the body can survive—but it perishes with the utter extinction of the last.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The animals did not die immediately, but they perished within several days.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

In hard-hit areas like Le Porge, experts say insects will have perished en masse and larger creatures from toads to lizards will not have been spared either.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

He also stood at the "Door of Europe" memorial for those who had perished attempting the crossing and spoke to a migrant family.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

But in the end it would not matter how they perished.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Although Alice never ran the risk of actually perishing in Wonderland, Arisu is another matter because of the very nature of the Borderland and how you gain entry through a near-death experience.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

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

"We need to save people from perishing before they can be liberated from al-Shabab," Prof Samatar says.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022

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

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy