depopulate

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

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

If the resuscitation of the State is desired by his labor, neither will be secured by a persecution which depopulates townships, and prevents the introduction of new labor and of capital.”

From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous

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

The gig becomes a lonely endeavor, however, when the pandemic hits and he’s confined to a depopulated campus, sent unwillingly into a kind of monkhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

“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

Ancient wars had depopulated much of the city, however, and large areas of Volantis had begun to sink back into the mud on which it stood.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

In that year Zeno bethought him of a device for ridding himself of the Ostrogoth, who, though he made no permanent settlement in Moesia or Macedonia, was gradually depopulating the realm by his incursions.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick