extirpate

Example Sentences

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“The enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century,” the social reformer Henry George complained in his 1879 bestseller, “Progress and Poverty,” “has no tendency to extirpate poverty.”

From Washington Post

And they essentially were — the fish had been extirpated decades before.

From New York Times

Wolves were mostly extirpated in Washington by the 1930s after nearly a century of shooting, trapping, poisoning and government extermination campaigns.

From Seattle Times

Spite, he observes, has some surprisingly positive aspects, and extirpating it would be a bad idea.

From Washington Post

Hence his attempt to extirpate through legislation the roots of what he calls “Islamist separatism,” which Mr. Macron believes undergirds recurrent domestic terrorism.

From New York Times