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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

It’s still uncertain how many of the trees it scorched will perish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 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

“Let them come. In me they shall find a sterner foe than Cleon. I would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

"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

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

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.

A dog aboard the vessel also perished in the incident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

His letters testify to the biological and economic upheaval sweeping across the Mediterranean; Zucchello himself perished in the disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The memorial service will honour more than 540 residents and all 35 engineers and electricians who perished when the ship sank on 15 April 1912.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document victims of Soviet-era political repression during which millions of people perished in the Gulag penal system.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

On other nights it was still, with such a stillness as one imagines as existing before the stars began to form, or after everything has perished.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

They looked absolutely freezing, which was not a surprise as it was a perishing January night in Lancashire.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

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

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

“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