perish
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Composer Shankar Mahadevan said "every Indian is heartbroken today", adding that her music would "never perish as long as humanity exists" and that she would "live forever, with her incredible voice echoing across the world".
From BBC β Apr. 12, 2026
Evolution occurs through random variation and natural selection: The strong survive and reproduce; the weak perish.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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 β Dec. 9, 2025
It’s still uncertain how many of the trees it scorched will perish.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 21, 2025
Sure was I of His efficiency to save what He had made: convinced I grew that neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
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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 β Aug. 18, 2026
"We need to get the food out as soon as we can before it perishes," Steele said.
From BBC β 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 β 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 β Mar. 8, 2024
But the actor's art perishes with him; when he dies, the memory of his expressive face and graceful form goes into the oblivion that keeps the echoes of his golden voice.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
They have survived when virtually every other contemporary financial claim has perished.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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 β 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 β Aug. 26, 2026
Notably, neither scavengers nor flies that fed on the supposedly poisoned carcasses have perished -- creatures that typically succumb after consuming poisoned animals.
From Barron's β Aug. 13, 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
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All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.
From Salon β 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 β 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 β Jun. 10, 2023
Levin yelled out into the roar, anything to take his mind off the thought of perishing in a landslide.
From Slate β Nov. 26, 2022
“Get to it, boy. If you succeed without perishing, you shall be a part of the inner circle.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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