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

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

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

She heads a group of mostly women who are working hive by hive to relocate bees that would be exterminated if they remained in Mexico’s crowded capital city.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 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