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The 13-year civil war killed hundreds of thousands, unleashed a refugee crisis and left cities bombed to rubble, the countryside depopulated and the Syrian economy hollowed out by global sanctions.
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Kanishka Singh, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
For example, workers in Colorado were infected while depopulating birds in hot barns with industrial fans blowing.
—Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
By this point in the war, the surrounding neighborhood, Zeitoun, was largely depopulated.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
The atomic age has already produced a wide number of nuclear exclusion zones dangerous to humans and depopulated.
—Thomas Bass
author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Kanishka Singh, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
For example, workers in Colorado were infected while depopulating birds in hot barns with industrial fans blowing.
—Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
By this point in the war, the surrounding neighborhood, Zeitoun, was largely depopulated.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
The atomic age has already produced a wide number of nuclear exclusion zones dangerous to humans and depopulated.
—Thomas Bass
author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for depopulate
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“Depopulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depopulate. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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