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perished



ADJECTIVE
fallen
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They had just dislodged Fred Holland and Walter Lees, who added 145 at The Oval in 1906, from the record books when Lawes perished.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Official records list disease as the cause of death for most of the boys who perished.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

In Argentina, roughly 1,300 sea lions and fur seals perished.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Mark Davis was just 13 years old when he perished in a juvenile detention facility for Black boys in the eastern US state of Maryland some 140 years ago.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill




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