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

The over-appropriated Yakima River Basin is even worse, due to the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation dams that exterminated several runs of salmon.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

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

Without access to coral reefs or productive shallow waters, and with their terrestrial birds quickly exterminated, Easter Islanders turned to constructing chicken houses for intensive poultry farming.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond