depopulate

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

In general, Canada — like Ireland, where the fertility rate is about 1.77, higher than in Canada but still below replacement — faces a choice: Either take in migrants or depopulate.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

The push to depopulate the halls and camps comes as the state sends more young offenders into the county’s care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

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

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

If the resuscitation of the State is desired by his labor, neither will be secured by a persecution which depopulates townships, and prevents the introduction of new labor and of capital.”

From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz

In the Hebrides the failure of a harvest almost depopulates an island.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

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

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

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand

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

Whatever its actual length, there is no doubting the war’s traumatic impact upon France, where swaths of countryside were depopulated for decades, or the grievous toll upon combatants and civilians alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Too many people think there’s nothing here, that we’re depopulated, so they try to place him here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024

The first whites to explore many parts of the Americas therefore would have encountered places that were already depopulated.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Are there other ways that an urban community could improve its fire resilience short of depopulating and creating large fire breaks between homes?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025

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

Those children move to cities, and are not in a position to take care of their parents who are left behind in depopulating areas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

And, therefore, how can one possibly work more efficiently for depopulating the domain of superstition, than by bringing its inhabitants forth and colonizing them on the lands of knowledge and science?

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam