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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 extinctions
All part of our great age of extinctions.
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Robert Minhinnick, The Dial, 2 Oct. 2025
Yet, there are some extinctions that have felt significantly more tragic than others.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Waves of trilobite extinctions swept the oceans, and an ancient planet better known for its explosion of life now saw the ambition of this frenzied new animal world periodically stifled under a high-CO2 hothouse.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
The analysis also found that the majority of extinctions took place among genera that lived exclusively on islands.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Unlike the dinosaurs, however, researchers and wildlife officials are working to slow down or even stop these extinctions — and sometimes bring animals back from the brink.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
The key for the future may be keeping rates of environmental change slow enough to avoid extinctions.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Environmental advocates have warned that this change would accelerate extinctions.
—Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
Since then, loss has seemed to him to pervade more and more of the world—in the form of extinctions and environmental crises, the lingering effects of the pandemic, and the devastation of the war in Gaza.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Robert Minhinnick, The Dial, 2 Oct. 2025
Yet, there are some extinctions that have felt significantly more tragic than others.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Waves of trilobite extinctions swept the oceans, and an ancient planet better known for its explosion of life now saw the ambition of this frenzied new animal world periodically stifled under a high-CO2 hothouse.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
The analysis also found that the majority of extinctions took place among genera that lived exclusively on islands.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Unlike the dinosaurs, however, researchers and wildlife officials are working to slow down or even stop these extinctions — and sometimes bring animals back from the brink.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
The key for the future may be keeping rates of environmental change slow enough to avoid extinctions.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Environmental advocates have warned that this change would accelerate extinctions.
—Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
Since then, loss has seemed to him to pervade more and more of the world—in the form of extinctions and environmental crises, the lingering effects of the pandemic, and the devastation of the war in Gaza.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extinctions
Noun
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Future solar cells, for instance, might harness coherence to move energy more efficiently, reducing losses and boosting performance.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Small private-sector businesses drove last month’s decline, and losses were widespread across industries (with some of the largest losses in professional and business services and leisure and hospitality), ADP reported.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Back in his day, hangdog stoner Bob (DiCaprio) used to be quite the revolutionary as the demolitions expert for a small but effective anti-establishment outfit called the French 75.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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But the organization still hopes to forestall the demolitions.—
Outside,
Outside,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Extinctions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extinctions. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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