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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

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put it simply in 1961, another era when it seemed America would split into pieces: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- a threshold just years away.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025

I may reply, I do have hope, in that I do not believe our race shall perish.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"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

The two-part sixth, and final, season of “The Crown” explores Princess Diana’s final days before she perishes in a car accident.

From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023

Civilization resembles an organic being in its development—it is born, it perishes, and it can propogate itself.

From The Black Man, the Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History by Webb, James Morris

A dog aboard the vessel also perished in the incident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

His letters testify to the biological and economic upheaval sweeping across the Mediterranean; Zucchello himself perished in the disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document victims of Soviet-era political repression during which millions of people perished in the Gulag penal system.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

They had just dislodged Fred Holland and Walter Lees, who added 145 at The Oval in 1906, from the record books when Lawes perished.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Kali stepped back as if she had been deliberately affronted: and such pity as she might have had in her perished.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Although Alice never ran the risk of actually perishing in Wonderland, Arisu is another matter because of the very nature of the Borderland and how you gain entry through a near-death experience.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

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

And she claimed her second victim in her second over, Sarah Bryce perishing for 13 from nine balls when a mis-timed shot resulted in a leading edge that was easily gathered by wicketkeeper Nicole Faltum.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2023

“Will you tell us about the new house, Bull? I’m perishing from curiosity,” Lillian spoke.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy