exterminated

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate helped bring Nazi war criminals to justice, and documented the deportations and deaths of 80,000 Jews from France exterminated in the Holocaust.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 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