extirpation

Example Sentences

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The Golden State’s gray wolves were hunted and trapped to extirpation a century ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024

Where species collapse does not occur, “climate change may result in large-scale mortality and population extirpation due to maladaptation of populations.”

From Scientific American • May 5, 2023

For decades, the penny has faced — and successfully fended off — calls for its extirpation.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2023

It’s either a survival technique to dodge humans or a sign that they are edging toward extirpation.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

It gained ground until the Government instituted the sanitary police regulations, which, though they were such as would be considered strange in England, were, he believed, absolutely necessary for the extirpation of the plague.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?