exterminate

So-called doomers aren’t usually worried that the “Terminator” movies will come true, with robots actively trying to exterminate people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

In 17th century Ireland, Robyn Goodfellowe is an apprentice hunter who follows her father when he’s called in to exterminate wolves.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

The grower reported having to exterminate between 50 and 100 rats per day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

A woman who accidentally killed an 11-year-old neighbour with poisonous gas she used to exterminate bedbugs has been spared jail by a judge at the Old Bailey.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

He seemed vaguely puzzled and disappointed; he must be wondering, she thought, whether it had been worth it, just to exterminate two rats.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

While she has been seemingly ruthless in her job as a sniper who exterminates the game players who fail, she also has sympathy for Gyeong-seok, having left behind a daughter of her own up North.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024

If some chance event exterminates them—for example the glaciers freezing fast onto their beds—then the likelihood of new animals making it in from the outside to recolonize the lakes afterward is extremely low.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2015

In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neanderthal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Inheritors, by William Golding In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neander thal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has uttered the spirit of wrath which exterminates the Land and the people wail.

From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon

Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

Along with the passenger pigeon we exterminated the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck and the ivory-billed woodpecker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Over time, beekeepers have kept hives that are more docile and exterminated bees that show aggressive tendencies in an effort to keep the majority of wild bees calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

For example, the dinosaurs may have been exterminated by the impact of an asteroid whose orbit was completely determined by the laws of classical mechanics.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

There are also conflicting views of the cost of exterminating so many owls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025

Liias — who is a self-proclaimed pollinator champion — recently sponsored Senate Bill 5972 to restrict neonicotinoids, or a particularly harmful class of pesticides that kill indiscriminately, exterminating not only pests but also countless pollinators.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

In some cases, the cost of exterminating the pests exceeds the value of the paintings.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023

Managers could consider adding artificial salt licks to places that lack them, for example, or exterminating goats in areas where they were introduced.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022

She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez