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exterminate

[ik-stur-muh-neyt] / ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪt /


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“Extermination usually is about the same price as a live bee removal,” he said, so increased costs may drive more people to exterminate rather than relocate the bees on their property.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

In 17th century Ireland, Robyn Goodfellowe is an apprentice hunter who follows her father when he’s called in to exterminate wolves.

From Salon Dec. 24, 2025

Mr. Biden will travel to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver the keynote address of the Holocaust museum’s yearly event and remember the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.

From New York Times May 1, 2024

But I think there is a very different scenario that threatens humanity that will likely occur long before AI decides to exterminate us.

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2024

We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

While she has been seemingly ruthless in her job as a sniper who exterminates the game players who fail, she also has sympathy for Gyeong-seok, having left behind a daughter of her own up North.

From Salon Dec. 29, 2024

If some chance event exterminates them—for example the glaciers freezing fast onto their beds—then the likelihood of new animals making it in from the outside to recolonize the lakes afterward is extremely low.

From Scientific American Feb. 3, 2015

The Inheritors, by William Golding In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neander thal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neanderthal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

He exterminates many plants in large areas, and substitutes in large measure those of his choice.

From Seed Dispersal by Beal, W. J. (William James)

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

Last year, some argued that the city should officially designate lovebugs as pests — a move that would allow them to be chemically exterminated — citing the threats they posed to mental health.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2025

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2025

Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production.

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

There are also conflicting views of the cost of exterminating so many owls.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2025

Liias — who is a self-proclaimed pollinator champion — recently sponsored Senate Bill 5972 to restrict neonicotinoids, or a particularly harmful class of pesticides that kill indiscriminately, exterminating not only pests but also countless pollinators.

From Seattle Times Apr. 23, 2024

In some cases, the cost of exterminating the pests exceeds the value of the paintings.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2023

Managers could consider adding artificial salt licks to places that lack them, for example, or exterminating goats in areas where they were introduced.

From Scientific American Oct. 17, 2022

She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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