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Miss enough feedings and a vulnerable chick can perish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The task today is to continue advancing the cause that he identified at Gettysburg: “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

"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

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

Life is the property of no one; it is a transmitted heir-loom that never perishes; it resembles a torch that communicates an eternal flame while consuming itself.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

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

"My father gave his life for the country and he should be remembered as a martyr," Dorjai said, adding that his teammates who perished deserve the same title.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

His pride had perished here in Winterfell; there was no place for such in the dungeons of the Dreadfort.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

They looked absolutely freezing, which was not a surprise as it was a perishing January night in Lancashire.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

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

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

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman