extermination
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She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
Theirs was a bold but unlikely mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and save European Jews from extermination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
In contrast, most units that underwent extermination were cleared of cockroaches and showed substantial reductions in both allergens and endotoxins.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025
“Anyway, he’s done bad things. He made magic use illegal, and he called for the extermination of dragons.”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Vocabulary lists containing extermination
"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 16
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