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Mr Gates has long been the subject of multiple conspiracy theories - the most extreme of which claim that he is part of an effort to depopulate the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

The scale of a fishing operation can also make a big difference: overly intensive methods of catching fish can depopulate entire schools at once and cause serious imbalances in marine ecosystems.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

“The faster we can get on site and depopulate the birds that remain on site, the better,” Minnesota State Veterinarian Beth Thompson said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

If the outbreak reaches the poultry industry, then farmers have to cull, or depopulate, their flocks to control the spread.

From Fox News ● Jan. 25, 2022

A mass exodus from North Korea could substantially depopulate the country, undermine its already inadequate capacity to grow food, and weaken—or perhaps even topple—the gov-ernment.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz

After a short period of activity, when the equal balance of loss and reparation is once removed, man quits the stage of life, and the law of mortality depopulates the earth.

From Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital5254."

From The Ancient Regime by John Durand

Its supposed events take place in the twenty-first century of our era, when a devouring plague depopulates by degrees the whole world, until the narrator remains, to his own belief, the only surviving soul.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

Some of the streets, especially that of Grand Chantier, he "depopulates."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand

He describes Pacific Northwest forests—which logging has depopulated of their natural stock and repopulated with rows and rows of identical trees—as having a “hall-of-mirrors effect” that can bewilder hikers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Haitians filled up the especially depopulated neighborhoods on the city’s south and east sides.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Almaraz plant, which contributes around seven percent of Spain's electricity production, is a key source of industry and employment in mostly rural, depopulated Extremadura.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage,” they wrote.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

The plain, meanwhile, was becoming bare and depopulated.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

But when is the last time you read about anything good taking place in a deindustrialized, depopulating, or aging community?

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024

While most villages in Portugal’s interior are slowly depopulating, even former residents come back for these feasts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

The county also committed to depopulating the jail by diverting some people into noncarceral beds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

In exporting techno music from one converted factory to another, Mr. Craig is increasing its historical worth but also depopulating it, objectifying it, giving it the same cool power as Judd’s specific objects.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

Negligent, ambitious, and perverse princes are the real causes of public adversities, of useless and unjust wars continually depopulating the earth, of greedy and despotic governments, destroying the benefactions of nature for men.

From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Anna Knoop