extirpate

Example Sentences

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“The enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century,” the social reformer Henry George complained in his 1879 bestseller, “Progress and Poverty,” “has no tendency to extirpate poverty.”

From Washington Post

After the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, the conquerors set out to extirpate Maya knowledge and culture.

From Science Magazine

In the final analysis, he could have done a better job to extirpate the vehement and notorious antisemitism that existed in the old guard.

From Salon

In 16 states, it has become very rare or "possibly extirpated" from 16 Northeast and Northwest states.

From Fox News

But by the 1950s decades of overhunting and habitat loss had nearly extirpated the species in the contiguous United States.

From Scientific American