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“Extermination usually is about the same price as a live bee removal,” he said, so increased costs may drive more people to exterminate rather than relocate the bees on their property.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

In 17th century Ireland, Robyn Goodfellowe is an apprentice hunter who follows her father when he’s called in to exterminate wolves.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

Mr. Biden will travel to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver the keynote address of the Holocaust museum’s yearly event and remember the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

Lucie Wütrich argues that with the world facing a "bio-diversity and climate change crisis, we can't afford to just exterminate things we don't like".

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

One cannot interrupt galaxy formation, start and stop hurricanes and ice ages, experimentally exterminate grizzly bears in a few national parks, or rerun the course of dinosaur evolution.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

While she has been seemingly ruthless in her job as a sniper who exterminates the game players who fail, she also has sympathy for Gyeong-seok, having left behind a daughter of her own up North.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024

If some chance event exterminates them—for example the glaciers freezing fast onto their beds—then the likelihood of new animals making it in from the outside to recolonize the lakes afterward is extremely low.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2015

The Inheritors, by William Golding In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neander thal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neanderthal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

He exterminates many plants in large areas, and substitutes in large measure those of his choice.

From Seed Dispersal by W. J. (William James) Beal

Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

Along with the passenger pigeon we exterminated the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck and the ivory-billed woodpecker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Over time, beekeepers have kept hives that are more docile and exterminated bees that show aggressive tendencies in an effort to keep the majority of wild bees calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

She heads a group of mostly women who are working hive by hive to relocate bees that would be exterminated if they remained in Mexico’s crowded capital city.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

They would have been exterminated if conservationists had not imposed protective measures quickly.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Liias — who is a self-proclaimed pollinator champion — recently sponsored Senate Bill 5972 to restrict neonicotinoids, or a particularly harmful class of pesticides that kill indiscriminately, exterminating not only pests but also countless pollinators.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

"They are called weeds by gardeners, but they have value, and we should be celebrating the dandelions not exterminating them," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023

“Why did he do that? Because the culture was exterminating too. He just went along with what the outer world was telling him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

His father had an exterminating business, but George chose a different path.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

Kuru was on its way to exterminating New Guinea’s Foré tribe of 20,000 people, until the establishment of Australian government control around 1959 ended cannibalism and thereby the transmission of kuru.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond