perish
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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
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
"However, a much more severe disease arrives, one that improved varieties are normally more resistant to... and the local varieties perish, or perhaps don't produce fruit," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025
The young perish and the old linger, withering.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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