extirpation

Example Sentences

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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

For decades, the penny has faced — and successfully fended off — calls for its extirpation.

From Washington Times

Gray seals previously on the brink of extirpation in waters of New England now occupy some Massachusetts beaches by the hundreds.

From Washington Post

Many are fleeing northward in search of cooler waters, causing “extirpation” — or local disappearance — of once-common species.

From Washington Post

So they engaged in a practice sanctioned by the Spanish crown called the “extirpation of idolatry.”

From Science Magazine