depopulation
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Migrants have helped to enrich our living standards and helped ward off depopulation trends that threaten other wealthy countries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Both had emigrated to Australia, part of a wave of rural depopulation as farm workers were replaced by mechanisation.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
Rural depopulation has also blurred traditional boundaries between towns and bear habitats, encouraging bears to expand their habitats towards residential areas, according to researchers.
From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025
Continuing to raise animals in overcrowded conditions and relying on mass depopulation is an unsustainable and inhumane response.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2025
Absent the extinctions, the encounter between Europe and the Americas might have been equally deadly for both sides—a world in which both hemispheres experienced catastrophic depopulation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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