depopulate
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Mr Gates has long been the subject of multiple conspiracy theories - the most extreme of which claim that he is part of an effort to depopulate the world.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024
In general, Canada — like Ireland, where the fertility rate is about 1.77, higher than in Canada but still below replacement — faces a choice: Either take in migrants or depopulate.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
County’s new Justice, Care and Opportunities Department established last year to depopulate, and eventually close, Men’s Central Jail by expanding community care for people being diverted or released from the justice system.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
The scale of a fishing operation can also make a big difference: overly intensive methods of catching fish can depopulate entire schools at once and cause serious imbalances in marine ecosystems.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022
A mass exodus from North Korea could substantially depopulate the country, undermine its already inadequate capacity to grow food, and weaken—or perhaps even topple—the gov-ernment.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital5254."
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
If the resuscitation of the State is desired by his labor, neither will be secured by a persecution which depopulates townships, and prevents the introduction of new labor and of capital.”
From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous
Some of the streets, especially that of Grand Chantier, he "depopulates."
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of country near Cuzco XXXIII.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
Haitians filled up the especially depopulated neighborhoods on the city’s south and east sides.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Almaraz plant, which contributes around seven percent of Spain's electricity production, is a key source of industry and employment in mostly rural, depopulated Extremadura.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage,” they wrote.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
Whatever its actual length, there is no doubting the war’s traumatic impact upon France, where swaths of countryside were depopulated for decades, or the grievous toll upon combatants and civilians alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Ancient wars had depopulated much of the city, however, and large areas of Volantis had begun to sink back into the mud on which it stood.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Are there other ways that an urban community could improve its fire resilience short of depopulating and creating large fire breaks between homes?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025
But when is the last time you read about anything good taking place in a deindustrialized, depopulating, or aging community?
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024
It could instead push against longstanding migration trends, pulling young people and families back to depopulating regions or small towns.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021
His reasoning: Toronto, which has almost 9,000 homeless people at last count, took an approach similar to Seattle’s, depopulating shelters and putting 2,000 people in hotels.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
At Vaisali, a pest like modern cholera was depopulating the kingdom, due to an accumulation of festering corpses.
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