exterminated

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

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

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

Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate helped bring Nazi war criminals to justice, and documented the deportations and deaths of 80,000 Jews from France exterminated in the Holocaust.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 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