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Their proposed legislation also would ensure that anyone who sues over the fire doesn’t have to pay state taxes on any settlement, and that local jurisdictions are responsible for pest extermination efforts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.

From Barron's Jan. 27, 2026

Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.

From MarketWatch Dec. 11, 2025

Theirs was a bold but unlikely mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and save European Jews from extermination.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

“Day after tomorrow, Saturday morning. The man in charge, a Doctor somebody, said they had some more checking to do in town tomorrow. They’re coming with an extermination truck—cyanide gas, I think.”

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien




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