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as in to die
to stop living
12 people perished in the plane crash
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as in to decompose
chiefly British
to go through decomposition
after being left out in the summer heat, the milk perished and had to be thrown out
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Recent Examples of perish
On the day of the incident, families were seen weeping and wailing as officials read off the names of the crash victims who perished at Muan International Airport, according to CNN and NBC News.
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David Chiu, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
All but two of the 181 people on board perished in the crash, which became the deadliest air accident in South Korea’s history.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
While Dowd perished under mysterious circumstances, Annie Mae persevered with just a grade-school education, pushing her three children to succeed, with Johnson’s mother and uncle earning advanced degrees from historically Black universities.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Amid ongoing wars, 104 journalists and media workers have been killed globally so far in 2024 with more than half of them perishing during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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David Chiu, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
All but two of the 181 people on board perished in the crash, which became the deadliest air accident in South Korea’s history.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
While Dowd perished under mysterious circumstances, Annie Mae persevered with just a grade-school education, pushing her three children to succeed, with Johnson’s mother and uncle earning advanced degrees from historically Black universities.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Amid ongoing wars, 104 journalists and media workers have been killed globally so far in 2024 with more than half of them perishing during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Fullerton police said the two people who died are believed to have been inside the plane at the time of the crash.Alex Stone, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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After enduring a cruel 2013, the year in which Vittorio died in a plane crash shortly before Ottavio passed away, Rosita continued to lead her now sprawling family in great style.Luke Leitch, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2025
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Park, the man who lost his brother and was speaking on behalf of other families, said Monday that more freezing containers were needed to keep the bodies from decomposing amid rising temperatures.Stella Kim, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Over the centuries, the decomposing bodies left cavities inside the hardened mineral casings.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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On paper, the movie is a very American epic—the rise and fall of a master builder, told as extravagantly as possible on 70-millimeter VistaVision, a largely obsolete film format that was predominantly used in the 1950s and ’60s.David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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But cornerback Cam Miller slipped and fell as Notre Dame ripped off a 54-yard touchdown reception from Riley Leonard to Jaden Greathouse to tie the score with 4:38 to play.Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The partnership between Synapse and Evolve Bank & Trust disintegrated over a $13 million deficit in Synapse’s For Benefit Of (FBO) accounts.Zareef Hamid, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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The phase transition If that wasn’t unpleasant enough for you, consider this: Perhaps the Universe will take some weird physics to the extreme and disintegrate in a flash of energy.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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The plot that slowly unfolds focuses on the subtle ways that opening the door to evil can rot a community from the inside.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
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Then came the yacht’s renaissance by her father, who saw beauty and sailing prowess inside a rotting hull.Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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What doesn’t decay this winter can be mulched up next spring.Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2022
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In particular, many theorists have wondered how the great complexity of life can be reconciled with the laws of thermodynamics that suggest that all systems must inevitably decay to a state of greatest disorder.The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
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“Perish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perish. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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