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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
Military casualties and the deaths of young people who have not yet had children may heighten fears that war will permanently weaken an already depopulating country.
—Mark L. Haas, Foreign Affairs, 24 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
Military casualties and the deaths of young people who have not yet had children may heighten fears that war will permanently weaken an already depopulating country.
—Mark L. Haas, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025
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“Depopulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depopulate. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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