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Emperor penguins rely on stable sea ice to live, hunt and breed and their chicks can perish if they fall in freezing water before developing waterproof feathers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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

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 only hurt that it did to his enemy, I fear; for it is unharmed, but all blades perish that pierce that dreadful King. More deadly to him was the name of Elbereth.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

For he who thus perishes possesses nothing, but relinquishes all to his heirs.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

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

AFP reporters saw a nurse call out the names of babies who had perished in the fire as families gathered outside.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Family members say three of Lobga’s uncles perished during a defining Chinese crackdown on Tibet in 1959—when the young Dalai Lama fled to India—and other relatives were imprisoned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Many Elves and many mighty Men, and many of their friends, had perished in the war.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Levin yelled out into the roar, anything to take his mind off the thought of perishing in a landslide.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022

Over recent years, there have been many similar examples of migrants perishing during their journey, but no single event as deadly as what was discovered on Monday.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2022

“Get to it, boy. If you succeed without perishing, you shall be a part of the inner circle.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman