mass extermination
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On Anacapa, the rats found the birds’ nests easy pickings, and a mass extermination campaign finally declared the island rat-free in 2003, returning Anacapa to the birds.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2023
His case, brought by state prosecutors and 65 plaintiffs — Holocaust survivors and relatives — may well be the last trial of a former Nazi complicit in the mass extermination of Jews.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2015
During the 1992 campaign, Clinton said, "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit idly by and watch it happen."
From Time Magazine Archive
No, says Morgenthau: in speaking of the value of life as against the value of the good life, Aristotle could not have contemplated mass extermination.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believes that the overkill hypothesis best accounts for the mass extermination of megafauna in Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar and North America, where species were suddenly confronted by able human hunters.
From Time Magazine Archive
