extermination
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She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
“It was probably the best-known and most accomplished orchestra” among the extermination camps on Polish soil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
In contrast, most units that underwent extermination were cleared of cockroaches and showed substantial reductions in both allergens and endotoxins.
From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025
Defenders of the overkill hypothesis reply: you would hardly expect to find kill sites if the extermination was completed very quickly and long ago, such as within a few millennia some 40,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing extermination
"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 16
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