as in destruction
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
the state's population of moose has been replenished, having once been hunted almost to extinction
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Recent Examples of extinction
The dyrosaurid lineage spread across the globe, and the group as a whole even survived the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers said.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Ben Lamm is making the impossible possible, working to bring animals back from extinction.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
The confirmation of Nanotyrannus’ existence means that Tyrannosaurus likely had some company for at least around one million years leading up to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
By the 1900s, millions of birds had been killed for the feather trade, threatening the extinction of several species.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Ben Lamm is making the impossible possible, working to bring animals back from extinction.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
The confirmation of Nanotyrannus’ existence means that Tyrannosaurus likely had some company for at least around one million years leading up to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
By the 1900s, millions of birds had been killed for the feather trade, threatening the extinction of several species.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extinction
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There are two questions Gazans have usually asked each other since the start of this campaign of unrelenting and systematic destruction, starvation, displacement and mass killing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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But catastrophes also tend to reveal deficits in society, and the patterns of destruction and abandonment that followed the fire—which have roots in America’s past and its present—tell us something about the country’s future, too.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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After constant requests during two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli military finally brings our correspondent into the territory to see the devastation in post-war northern Gaza firsthand.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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In 2005, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, park officials made the decision to close Six Flags New Orleans permanently.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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At the center of all the glitzy havoc—her face often looming on a huge flat screen that rolls around the stage, following actors like a hulking LED stalker—is of course Chenoweth.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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After those rules are broken, the gremlin spawns more of its kind and end up wrecking havoc on Billy’s hometown during Christmas.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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This means clear ownership, strategic leadership, and, above all, profit-and-loss accountability.—
Phil Gilbert,
Fortune,
12 Nov. 2025
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Three years later, a clinical study of the Pro, paid for by Stryker, found that 1 in 4 patients experienced complications after getting the implant, ranging from infection to avascular necrosis, the death of bone tissue due to loss of blood.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Nov. 2025
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The administration maintains that the NCPC has jurisdiction over construction rather than demolition.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
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Barrett Lo has said demolition could begin before the end of 2025.—
Adrienne Davis,
jsonline.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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At extermination camps, the Nazis burned the remains of Jewish victims in crematoria to hide evidence of genocide.—
Jesse Kirsch,
NBC news,
4 Nov. 2025
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In Danis Tanovic’s underseen drama, Farrell plays an Irish war photographer who gets separated from his best friend and colleague in Iraqi Kurdistan in the prelude to Saddam Hussein’s 1988 extermination campaign against the Kurds.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Extinction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extinction. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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