extirpation
Example Sentences
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Fortunately, the pumas’ extirpation from the region doesn’t mean they’ll be extinct everywhere in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2024
Where species collapse does not occur, “climate change may result in large-scale mortality and population extirpation due to maladaptation of populations.”
From Scientific American • May 5, 2023
For decades, the penny has faced — and successfully fended off — calls for its extirpation.
From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2023
Gray seals previously on the brink of extirpation in waters of New England now occupy some Massachusetts beaches by the hundreds.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
K. Kamtschatka, volcanoes in, 353.——, new island near, 468.Kangaroo, extirpation of; to Australia, 684.Kashmir.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
