exterminated

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Humans exterminated the passenger pigeon, the great auk and the Carolina parakeet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Sheinbaum evoked the Holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

The over-appropriated Yakima River Basin is even worse, due to the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation dams that exterminated several runs of salmon.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

Hunters expanding southward through the Americas, encountering big animals that had never seen humans before, may have found those American animals easy to kill and may have exterminated them.

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