perish
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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
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
The UN warned in July that the couple could perish "in such degrading conditions" if they did not receive medical care at once, calling their detention "inhumane".
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025
“I’ve convinced them that without you as translator, we will all perish in Virginia,” he says as the clamps open and fall away.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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