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The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- the ambitious, long-term limit countries agreed to pursue under the 2015 Paris climate accord.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 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

I pre­ferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this mur­derous island.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

"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

The monkey, so delicate in our climate, and which almost invariably perishes from tuberculosis, is uninjured by inoculation from avian virus.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

"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

The animals did not die immediately, but they perished within several days.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the hard truths of human nature bring us closer to the people who perished in Pompeii.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

A dog aboard the vessel also perished in the incident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

But life is hardy, and when the smoke cleared there were enough lucky survivors from every species that none permanently perished.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

It’s a symbiotic relationship that won’t be perishing anytime soon.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 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

Over recent years, there have been many similar examples of migrants perishing during their journey, but no single event as deadly as what was discovered on Monday.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2022

Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife