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"text": "Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.",
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"ref": "2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3",
"text": "On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.",
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"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime",
"text": "Dr. Manuel: You're wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2012 January 29, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-01-26, page 70",
"text": "Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.",
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"ref": "2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3",
"text": "On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.",
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"ref": "2023 June 17, Severin Carrell, “Dancing Capercaillie bird makes a tentative comeback in Scotland”, in The Guardian",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"word": "estinción"
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "extinció"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "滅絕"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mièjué",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "灭绝"
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "uitsterven"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "formorto"
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"word": "extinction"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "extinción"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadašeneba",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "გადაშენება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "amoc̣q̇veṭa",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "ამოწყვეტა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "mosṗoba",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "მოსპობა"
},
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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},
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"alt": "ぜつめつ",
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"roman": "zetsumetsu",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "絶滅"
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"alt": "滅種",
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"roman": "myeoljong",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "멸종"
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"feminine"
],
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{
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"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "utrydding"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "utdøying"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "wymieranie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "wygaszenie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "wymarcie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "wytępienie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "extinção"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vymiránije",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "вымира́ние"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "izumiranje"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "extinción"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "utrotning"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "paglipol"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "lipol"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "pagkalipol"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gaan-sǔun-pan",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "การสูญพันธุ์"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vymyránnja",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "вимира́ння"
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"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "the action of making or becoming extinct",
"word": "àkúrun"
}
],
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"extinction"
],
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