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The Swiss Re Institute warned Tuesday that wildfire risk is the fastest-growing weather peril globally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

"Wildfire risk has so far accounted for only a relatively small share of insured losses in Europe. Yet it is the fastest-growing weather peril globally," the company said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

It’s a system that has worked for decades, but it may be in peril, as the 12-bed private nonprofit hospital’s leaders are concerned it won’t be able to survive its current financial challenges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“Legally Blonde” sets up Elle to be underestimated by everybody, including the audience, although the movie drops small hints from the very start that perhaps everyone misjudges her at their peril.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

He thought I was worth saving, even when giving me a chance to live put his own life in peril.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Plus, China’s latest AI advances, always-on transcription and the perils of big AI contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Even so, as he described to me in his office, perils remain, especially for Muslim candidates.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The perils of leaving a five-star review on a wing and a prayer.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

“ProPublica’s reporting shows the perils of not having this law,” Rubin said.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

It was because of this continuous stream of undocumented human souls that, a few months after our arrival, my mother warned me about the perils of a favourite habit of mine: begging for food.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Whether Franklin Roosevelt consciously led the U.S. to war, or hoped to keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

We all realize that we live in periled times, and our nation must be prepared to defend itself at a moment's notice.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night last week an old dog periled the Earl's new job.

From Time Magazine Archive

He exacted the utmost consideration for his men, and the officer who periled their safety, or disputed their efficiency, was quickly called to account.

From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

Obeying what he conceived to be the mandate of his State, he followed the impulse of his feelings and the example of his kindred and his friends, and periled all in that belief.

From Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session by Various

Justice Department attorneys respond that fears about Snepp's being a loose cannon periling the First Amendment rights of all sorts of people are greatly exaggerated.

From Time Magazine Archive

As to her periling her life, those Marsh people are amphibious anyway, or would be in those clothes.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte

For now it came to me that while I would be saving life, mayhap I had been periling it again.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

It was the unhandsome treatment of himself and reckless periling of the character and interests of his Expedition in order to shield others, that raised his indignation.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie

Too comfortable in his feelings to keep still, as indeed was indispensable to the most steady among us, he kept constantly lurching about, and periling us with a capsizing repeatedly.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage.

From Time Magazine Archive

While I love my country as well as any man, and in this enterprise cheerfully perilled my life to serve it, I was only his co-worker: I should not have undertaken it alone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

Wasn't it for you that I did all this? and—God, forgive me!—maybe it 's my soul that I 've perilled to leave you a rich man.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever

They feared God, and perilled their lives for freedom, in the high places of the field.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

He perilled everything, while they staked only their lives and their property.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

That wife, whom it is your greatest pleasure to win to smiles, wears a half-sad look as she meets these proofs of love; she fears that you are perilling too much for her pleasure.

From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell

She was perilling her own in order to accompany and assist his expedition.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

He had lost caste, he feared, with Pledge, and he was running into the enemy’s country and perilling not only himself, but Dick, in the venture.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

She felt extreme reluctance in perilling her home.

From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

"I give thee my gage," said the cavalier, "with this understanding, then, that I am free to fly, whenever I may do so without perilling thy life, and the life of Jacinto."

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird