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perdition

[per-dish-uhn] / pərˈdɪʃ ən /


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Mr. Chabal, a professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, is sympathetic but not so much of a fellow traveler as to follow his subject down the road to perdition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

If so, which people are allowed in and which are banished to perdition, if not sentenced to be annihilated?

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

This perdition has only grown more baroque and hellish during the post-COVID travel rebound, which has created dehumanizing rental car shortages and skyrocketing prices across the country.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2023

That, to her, was a road to perdition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2019

I was condemned to eternal perdition if I was going to be able to call my own sister ‘Miss Tansy.’

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck


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