How to pronounce “perch”(noun) in English

We've flown the perch that evolution has built for us.

Some of them have perches.

They've knocked spiders silk off the perch.

And so I love my perch on the Op Ed page of "The New York Times," but I do think that people come up

They can't walk, perch, roost, dust-bathe.

to knock the self-satisfied Lupa off its exalted perch we know there has to be a

But if you sneak up on the sponge, said Aristotle, you can more easily remove it from its perch.

So I would just -- for me just be very sensitive because I have seen you get knocked off your perch quicker than you think.

And, yeah, you're right it's difficult to sort of proactively look for this kind of information as a criterion to make an in perches decision.