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Large areas of the country had been depopulated by disease.
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The killings left historical eastern Poland so depopulated of Poles that the Soviet government deported the remainder and shifted Poland and Ukraine’s borders westward.
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
Should anyone literally expect that humanity will depopulate down to the last two people?
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Even more problematically, some of the more extreme figures in Netanyahu’s Cabinet have seized on Trump’s words as implicit approval for their own plans to depopulate Gaza and reannex the territory.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 31 July 2025
Urban neighborhood after urban neighborhood was depopulated.
—James Burling, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
Should anyone literally expect that humanity will depopulate down to the last two people?
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Even more problematically, some of the more extreme figures in Netanyahu’s Cabinet have seized on Trump’s words as implicit approval for their own plans to depopulate Gaza and reannex the territory.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 31 July 2025
Urban neighborhood after urban neighborhood was depopulated.
—James Burling, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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“Depopulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depopulate. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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depopulate
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de·pop·u·late
(ˈ)dē-ˈpäp-yə-ˌlāt 
: to reduce greatly the population of (as a city or region) by destroying or driving away the inhabitants
depopulated by plague
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