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Recent Examples of depopulate
Trump’s call for depopulating Gaza has stunned Palestinians.
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Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
Around Damascus, entire neighborhoods lay razed and depopulated, and much of the city center looked dingy and worn.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
In late October, the D1.1 subtype was confirmed in workers who were depopulating birds on a farm with infected poultry in Washington state.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
Why are egg prices soaring? Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone and continues to depopulate flocks into 2025, according to the USDA.
—Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2025
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Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
Around Damascus, entire neighborhoods lay razed and depopulated, and much of the city center looked dingy and worn.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
In late October, the D1.1 subtype was confirmed in workers who were depopulating birds on a farm with infected poultry in Washington state.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
Why are egg prices soaring? Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone and continues to depopulate flocks into 2025, according to the USDA.
—Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2025
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