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go extinct

verb as in obsolesce

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verb as in outdate

verb as in superannuate

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“In South Korea’s food retail market, you go extinct if you’re not quick to change,” says Chae Da-in, who says her obsession with convenience stores is decades old.

Hundreds to thousands of animal species go extinct every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and things are projected to get even worse if climate change continues unabated.

Other critiques have addressed the concrete implications of their approach for the extinction crisis in which, as Colossal correctly states, “is a colossal problem facing our world,” with roughly 150 species driven to extinction every day and up to half of all species predicted to go extinct by 2050.

From Salon

Maybe, if it gets bad enough, humans will go extinct, I thought, hopefully.

From Slate

There is only one thing guaranteed to go extinct in the near future, whether by choice or by force, and that’s the kind of society that taught me that humans are nothing but a destructive force in the first place.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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