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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 push to depopulate the halls and camps comes as the state sends more young offenders into the county’s care.

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

Some of the streets, especially that of Grand Chantier, he "depopulates."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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

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

Its supposed events take place in the twenty-first century of our era, when a devouring plague depopulates by degrees the whole world, until the narrator remains, to his own belief, the only surviving soul.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

“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

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

“Too many people think there’s nothing here, that we’re depopulated, so they try to place him here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024

Space was an anesthetic; seventy million miles of space numbed you, put memory to sleep, depopulated Earth, erased the past, and allowed these people here to go on with their work.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 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

All their force was employed in depopulating the country.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus