extirpation
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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
The tribe has watched salmon harvest decline by more than 80% in the past decades, and the unaddressed impacts of climate change are sending the salmon toward extirpation, Brimmer argued in the letter.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 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
Averruncā′tion, act of averting: extirpation; Averrunc′ātor, an instrument for cutting off branches of trees.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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