as in hell
the place of punishment for the wicked after death
simple stupidity is not enough to doom one to perdition
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Recent Examples of perdition
California policymakers continue to make laws and allow regulators to contrive rules that make California a land of perdition rather than destination for enterprise because they have been captured by left-of-center interests.
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Kerry Jackson,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Yet, the measure was promptly shuffled into the House Rules Committee, where it could be buried to perdition.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
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Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.
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Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Kerry Jackson,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Yet, the measure was promptly shuffled into the House Rules Committee, where it could be buried to perdition.
—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perdition
Noun
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Flying straight from the merry Riverlands into the somber halls of Dragonstone is one hell of a comedown, but Daemon never struggles to access his dark side.
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Avery met his wife Sally Michael–a hell of an artist in her own right–in Cape Ann and the couple honeymooned there in 1926 before moving to New York and meeting Gottlieb and Rothko.
Noun
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But Grand Junction’s cloudless blue sky gave no hint of the inferno that continued to ravage the Colorado-Utah border less than an hour away.
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The story detailed the first critical hours of the Palisades fire, when thousands of residents had to decide whether and how to flee the inferno.
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“Perdition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perdition. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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