exterminate

So-called doomers aren’t usually worried that the “Terminator” movies will come true, with robots actively trying to exterminate people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The US government launched a campaign to systematically exterminate wolves towards the end of the 19th Century.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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

The grower reported having to exterminate between 50 and 100 rats per day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

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

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

I told Moe how a man exterminates useful or harmless species, and then he lets dangerous ones, like rats, eat him out of house and home.

From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert

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

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

“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

"They are called weeds by gardeners, but they have value, and we should be celebrating the dandelions not exterminating them," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023

“Why did he do that? Because the culture was exterminating too. He just went along with what the outer world was telling him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

His father had an exterminating business, but George chose a different path.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 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