exterminated

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Humans exterminated the passenger pigeon, the great auk and the Carolina parakeet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Last year, some argued that the city should officially designate lovebugs as pests — a move that would allow them to be chemically exterminated — citing the threats they posed to mental health.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

The over-appropriated Yakima River Basin is even worse, due to the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation dams that exterminated several runs of salmon.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

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

Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies.

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