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perdition

noun

pər-ˈdi-shən

Definition of perdition

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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for perdition

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When the typewriter was first invented, writers kicked hell and said, The thing is writing.

— Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
The cast, of course, knew that experience of family as heaven, hell and somewhere in between.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026

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Sunday’s temperature for the men’s final is forecast to be around 82 degrees—hot, yes, but nothing like the inferno that was Paris—and so external factors would seem to be at a minimum.

— Corey Seymour, Vogue, 10 July 2026
At least 12 people have been killed in one of southern Spain’s worst-ever wildfires, local officials said Friday, as tragic stories emerge of victims’ attempts to flee the inferno.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 10 July 2026

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