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Recent Examples of perdition 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 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 See All Example Sentences for perdition
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Noun
  • Brian is there waiting for her and holy hell are these two into each other.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, there are teams that constantly underwhelm, but the teams that remain talented and in purgatory hell might be worse off.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • National Park Service officials say there was no way to predict the Dragon Bravo Fire would turn into an inferno, jump containment lines and rip through the Grand Canyon's North Rim, leaving a historic lodge and 100 other structures in smoking ruin.
    Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Around 1,000 firefighters are battling the huge inferno—which was only 7 percent contained at the start of the week—amid gusty winds and dry conditions.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Perdition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perdition. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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