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- noun Plural form of
peril .
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Examples
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“I try to warn her about certain perils, shall we say, of flirtation.”
Virginity Paul Hargreaves 2010
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It is quite possible that soon, American investors will take note of corporations who ignore the long-term perils involved in shipping jobs out of their country.
Robert L. Dilenschneider: Here Are the Jobs, Mr. President Robert L. Dilenschneider 2011
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I don't know a lot about the details of cancer but it has affected me closely and I know that one of the biggest perils is not getting checked for various things regularily.
Archive 2010-03-01 Forest Parks 2010
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It is quite possible that soon, American investors will take note of corporations who ignore the long-term perils involved in shipping jobs out of their country.
Robert L. Dilenschneider: Here Are the Jobs, Mr. President Robert L. Dilenschneider 2011
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The risks inherent in owning a home are called perils.
MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995
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The risks inherent in owning a home are called perils.
MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995
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I am not blind to certain perils which lie in the way; but I think they have been exaggerated and will tend to cure themselves.
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Anticipating the president's arguments - and mindful of the Tea Party demands that lawmakers make even deeper cuts in government spending - Republicans stayed on their message that the president's budget does little to address the long-term perils of growing debt.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL D. SHEAR 2011
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They were men that were accustomed to hardships and hazards; the fisher's trade, more than any other, is laborious and perilous; fishermen must be often wet and cold; they must watch, and wait, and toil, and be often in perils by waters.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Thus he was all his days a constant confessor; perhaps scarcely a year of his life, after his conversion, passed without suffering some hardship or other for his religion; yet this was not all, for, wherever he went, he went in perils; he was exposed to perils of all sorts.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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