exterminated

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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

Sheinbaum evoked the Holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

Known as the Chicxulub impact, it set off a global shock wave, earthquakes and megatsunamis that exterminated the nonavian dinosaurs and plunged Earth into a long and dark winter.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

There is an old piece of wisdom in biohazard work that goes like this: you can never know when life is exterminated.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston