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
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
Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
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
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