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

Gray wolves were exterminated across most of the U.S. by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023

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

Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies.

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