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Fashion giants on both sides of the Atlantic are underestimating the Chinese shopper at their own peril.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

McKinley stages a few bullet-sweating sequences of peril, including a particularly brutal transport of gold bars across a crumbling rope bridge and an underwater accident exacerbated by floating logs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

In places like Minneapolis and Des Moines, Iowa, insurers are factoring in hail and severe convective storms, ICE added, which is a “a peril that is frequently overlooked but is now driving double-digit increases.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

“The peril that is most concerning is really tornadoes,” said Karen Clark, chief executive and co-founder of risk-modeling firm Karen Clark & Co.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

But I spoke yet of my dread to none, knowing the peril of an untimely whisper, if it went astray.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wilshere, who is aiming to guide Luton to promotion to the Championship this season, felt one of his managerial strengths was being able to warn his young players of the perils of professional football.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

She was also, in her own unique way, a dedicated revolutionary, rarely letting an opportunity pass to use her appearance to point out the perils and absurdity of stereotyping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The road ahead was full of perils, he knew, but what of it?

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In the plague of Alexandria, six hundred parabolani periled their lives to succour the dying and bury the dead.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow

I was truly sorry to hear of the fate of that poor fellow who had periled so much for liberty.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

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

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

No one could then manifest any sympathy with the proscribed without periling life.

From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

It was impossible to touch the mud of Paris without periling the subsistence of eighteen hundred persons.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

When I found myself a prisoner, I thought I would try this door before periling the sleep of a patient in the small-pox.

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

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

They perilled all upon the issue; and the issue went against them.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler) Hosmer

Directly he seemed to have the end in his hand, and they saw him stretch the left arm as if to throw it around the body of the perilled man.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

His feelings toward the devoted and interesting maiden, who had perilled and suffered so much on his account, were enthusiastic in the highest degree.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

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

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

How should she separate these two beautiful faiths which had been enthroned as one in the happy depths of her guileless heart, without perilling her very trust in God!

From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

However much her demagogues may have exerted their oratorical powers at home, they carefully avoided perilling either life or limb in the cause of the revolution.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

She felt extreme reluctance in perilling her home.

From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

Humbly and earnestly I sought to the God of wisdom and light to guide me; and I never felt for a moment that I was perilling my salvation.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey

“If I did unwisely in advising resistance, and perilling your lives as well as my own, I now ask your forgiveness; on my own account I do not regret it.”

From The Island Home by Dalziel