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

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 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

While those birds were important food sources for the initial colonists, especially on New Zealand’s South Island, most of them were soon exterminated on all islands, because they were easy to hunt down.

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