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Evolution occurs through random variation and natural selection: The strong survive and reproduce; the weak perish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

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

"However, a much more severe disease arrives, one that improved varieties are normally more resistant to... and the local varieties perish, or perhaps don't produce fruit," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

The UN has also warned that they could perish "in such degrading conditions" if they do not receive medical care at once, calling their detention "inhumane".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

The man who might have been a bigamist, who might have had two sons perish as part of the Forty-Eighth.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Another is a pungent work of terror about a cursed man who inexplicably perishes in the village’s crypt, forcing the townspeople to investigate by disinterring the bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

"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

There must be space for organic life to develop and maintain itself, otherwise it perishes.

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin

They have survived when virtually every other contemporary financial claim has perished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I did not know then how many people had perished, but I knew countless families would be grieving that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

If we’re to believe what’s chronicled in “Freefall” by former Boeing employees, aviation experts, crash investigators and the families of those who perished in the 737 Max crashes, there’s already a thin line of accountability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

"My father gave his life for the country and he should be remembered as a martyr," Dorjai said, adding that his teammates who perished deserve the same title.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

She made no mention of her encounter with death and her flash of terror, except to say to her husband, “I thought I should have perished out there alone.”

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024

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

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

Levin yelled out into the roar, anything to take his mind off the thought of perishing in a landslide.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022

“When a man’s alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin’ all night, but guns firing, and voices calling.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens