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

In the platypus attendant's logbook, the interns found evidence that his rations en route were being decreased as some of the worms began to perish.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

‘The only hurt that it did to his enemy, I fear; for it is unharmed, but all blades perish that pierce that dreadful King. More deadly to him was the name of Elbereth.’

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