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Carson’s book ushered in a wave of environmentalism in America; at the same time, Tsutsui points out, the Big Bug films died out.—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024 Read More: These 5 Ancient Cultures Thought Solar Eclipses Were Omens and Prophecies
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But moon myths didn’t die out in modern times.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024 Notre-Dame’s medieval artisans—the blacksmiths who forged the axes, hewers who squared the timber, joiners who connected the timbers without nails or screws—represented a savoir-faire, or expertise, that has all but died out in the age of Ikea.—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024 The first two groups died out—the Saqqaq around three thousand years ago, the Dorset around a thousand years ago—for reasons that are unknown.—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for die out
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