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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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The Mine Safety and Health Administration established the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety grant program for these efforts named after 25 miners who perished in mine disasters at the Jim Walter Resources #5 mine in Brookwood, Alabama, in 2001 and at the Sago Mine in Buckhannon, West Virginia, in 2006.
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Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024
Onboard the vessel were British prisoners-of-war and over 800 British troops perished during the incident.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
Claimants currently include the families of six construction workers who perished, a survivor of the bridge collapse, and at least a dozen businesses alleging they’ve been economically harmed by the disaster – ranging from a Baltimore propane distributor to international shippers.
—USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
For an employee who perished the way Pérez did, that would have meant payments until his toddler son was at least 18, which could approach a total of $500,000.
—Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
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Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024
Onboard the vessel were British prisoners-of-war and over 800 British troops perished during the incident.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
Claimants currently include the families of six construction workers who perished, a survivor of the bridge collapse, and at least a dozen businesses alleging they’ve been economically harmed by the disaster – ranging from a Baltimore propane distributor to international shippers.
—USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
For an employee who perished the way Pérez did, that would have meant payments until his toddler son was at least 18, which could approach a total of $500,000.
—Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
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The organization, created in 2002 after four students at a Jefferson County high school died by suicide in a nine-month period, is branching out beyond the Front Range.Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Monk likely died long before deputies checked for his pulse, the lawsuit claimed.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The sight of Till’s mutilated and decomposed corpse at his open-casket funeral galvanized the civil-rights movement.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Listen to this article A zombie ant, a pair of bats and a gorilla lurked around the shadiest alcoves of a Cook County forest preserve on Saturday, scouring the earth for decomposing life forms.Peter Breen, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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Drawing from his own experiences growing up in South Africa, Noah explores the universal tensions between parents and children, particularly the disconnect that can occur when understanding falls short.Okla Jones, Essence, 24 Oct. 2024
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Bayern did equalize through Harry Kane but then fell apart as Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski put Barça 3-1 up by the break.Ben Church, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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This keeps the goat cheese from muddying the salad and the orange segments from disintegrating, creating a clean-looking, beautifully colorful salad.Julia Levy, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
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Many of these works have disintegrated or have been lost, with only documentary photographs remaining.Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Its wooden exterior is black due to it being burnt using the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban method of charring wood to protect and preserve it from insects and rotting.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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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 Nov. 2024.
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