perdition

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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

But in the process of laying out the road to perdition, Walker demonstrates the depths of his humanity and challenges us to bridge the distance that we imagine separates us from the damned.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2018

Its crowdedness seems to amplify the collective anxiety of the artists witnessing, resisting and, at times, celebrating their road to perdition.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018

“You don’t know that for sure. And for crying out loud, don’t you know what perdition means?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool