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If people exterminate hives, native pollinators such as monarch butterflies, bumblebees, wasps and more can also be affected by the insecticides used.

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

For The Beatles it must have been a hard day's night, but such was Dalek-mania, the robot mutants helped Doctor Who exterminate the Fab Four in one of the first major TV ratings battles.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023

To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

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

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

Some say that it is a philtre for love, and that it exterminates jealousy.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

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

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Over time, beekeepers have kept hives that are more docile and exterminated bees that show aggressive tendencies in an effort to keep the majority of wild bees calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

“No, Scout, those ragged ignorant people fought until they were nearly exterminated to maintain something that these days seems to be the sole privilege of artists and musicians.”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

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

But the city met stiff opposition to trapping or exterminating the rodents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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

Kuru was on its way to exterminating New Guinea’s Foré tribe of 20,000 people, until the establishment of Australian government control around 1959 ended cannibalism and thereby the transmission of kuru.

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