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extirpation

[ek-ster-pay-shuhn] / ˌɛk stərˈpeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
extermination
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California’s gray wolves were hunted and trapped to extirpation about 100 years ago, with the last documented wild wolf shot in 1924.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

The tribe has watched salmon harvest decline by more than 80% in the past decades, and the unaddressed impacts of climate change are sending the salmon toward extirpation, Brimmer argued in the letter.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

Where species collapse does not occur, “climate change may result in large-scale mortality and population extirpation due to maladaptation of populations.”

From Scientific American ● May 5, 2023

For decades, the penny has faced — and successfully fended off — calls for its extirpation.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

On Jan. 15, 1887, extirpation of the tumor by means of the high section was performed by Professor v.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various


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