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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

“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

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 John Durand

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

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

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 Florence A. Thomas Marshall

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 Friedrich Schiller

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

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

From a prewar population of about 31,000, the town has been depopulated and left in ruins.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

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

In exporting techno music from one converted factory to another, Mr. Craig is increasing its historical worth but also depopulating it, objectifying it, giving it the same cool power as Judd’s specific objects.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

Negligent, ambitious, and perverse princes are the real causes of public adversities, of useless and unjust wars continually depopulating the earth, of greedy and despotic governments, destroying the benefactions of nature for men.

From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Anna Knoop