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exterminatory

[ik-stur-muh-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ɪkˈstɜr mə nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /
ADJECTIVE
internecine
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Example Sentences

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“We cannot live under this exterminatory threat.”

From Slate

“There’s an exterminatory amount of precedence for this … The Trump administration also did this very thing, but also it has happened before,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said in a separate interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

From Washington Times

But her conviction made clear that participation in an exterminatory system, at whatever level, deserves to be recognized as a crime.

From Washington Post

These exterminatory Islamist views are not narrowly political or military.

From US News

In 2014, what strange pleasures — and horrors — can be found in rising adult fears in an exterminatory world? 

From Salon