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

It’s as though, having all but exterminated a plague, we decided we no longer needed to keep up the pyric hygiene that contained it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

Known as the Chicxulub impact, it set off a global shock wave, earthquakes and megatsunamis that exterminated the nonavian dinosaurs and plunged Earth into a long and dark winter.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

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

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