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Recent Examples of perdition The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 Or did Christ die only for us, leaving any other creatures to a kind of limbo or perdition? Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024 Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024 But the barrier between life and death is no less permeable than those between childhood and adulthood, or dreams and reality, or a world of perdition and a hidden paradise. Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for perdition
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Noun
  • Art the Clown is going to raise hell as the Terrifier film franchise comes to Halloween Horror Nights for the first time.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • What fresh hell will Wednesday’s Grandmama (the Absolutely Fabulous Joanna Lumley) raise at Nevermore?
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Climate change is a major contributor, as drought and rising global temperatures make the infernos bigger, faster and harder to stop.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
  • And days before the Formula One Grand Prix in Jeddah in March 2022, the Houthi rebels fired a missile at an oil storage facility in the Saudi city and an inferno of fire and smoke filled the skyline.
    Dina Esfandiary, Time, 1 July 2025

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“Perdition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perdition. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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