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When the cells die, their myelin production perishes with them, causing myelin sheaths to break down with nothing to replenish them.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

West of the Cascades, many a plant perishes due to excessive rain in winter, even though it’s cold hardy and “drought-tolerant.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

The two-part sixth, and final, season of “The Crown” explores Princess Diana’s final days before she perishes in a car accident.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2023

More than a dozen of these markets are in open air, where women stand in the sun all day and “suffer immense loss” as their fresh produce perishes in the heat.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2022

When the protoplasm of the cell is interfered with by the later tissue-changes of the disease, the bacillus perishes.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various