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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

“The department’s inability to meet the minimal obligations to the young people in its care is a painfully clear demonstration of the need to urgently depopulate the halls,” the motion says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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

“The faster we can get on site and depopulate the birds that remain on site, the better,” Minnesota State Veterinarian Beth Thompson said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 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 Durand, John

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

After a short period of activity, when the equal balance of loss and reparation is once removed, man quits the stage of life, and the law of mortality depopulates the earth.

From Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich

In the Hebrides the failure of a harvest almost depopulates an island.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of            country near Cuzco  XXXIII.

From History of the Incas by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

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

The fear is that if these valleys become depopulated, other aspects of unique mountain culture could be lost too - like the Tschäggättä, traditional wooden masks, unique to the Loetschental valley.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

The fighting has displaced some 110,000 people in Lebanon, and approximately 60,000 in northern Israel, leaving both sides of the border depopulated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

The most affected appear to be large-scale industrial farms and those raising egg-producing chickens: two-thirds of the depopulated birds belong to just 30 farms with one million or more egg-laying hens.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

It is this exact neighborhood, he realizes, colorless and depopulated and miniaturized.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

While most villages in Portugal’s interior are slowly depopulating, even former residents come back for these feasts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

The county also committed to depopulating the jail by diverting some people into noncarceral beds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

Those children move to cities, and are not in a position to take care of their parents who are left behind in depopulating areas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

“Don’t open the door,” cried Belzébuth; “that rascal wins at every turn; he is capable of depopulating my empire.”

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various