extermination
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“Quipu del Extermino / Extermination Quipu” includes a trinity of hanging sculptures — red, black and white — nestled in the two-story bay off the first ramp.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Friedlander received the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction in 2008 for “The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945,” the second volume in his history of Jews in Hitler’s Germany.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2021
Extermination camps were not the same thing as concentration camps.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
“We have traps that catch mosquitoes live,” said Michael Romanski, superintendent of the Ocean County New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Commission.
From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2016
Extermination in a wild state means that the only living representatives are in captivity or otherwise under protection.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 16
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