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
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
Like many Scottish islands, the island is struggling with depopulation with retirees making up a large proportion of the residents.
From BBC • May 5, 2025
Sara also reads Pentti Linkola, a more extreme thinker sometimes linked to ecofascist ideas about radical depopulation, though Norlin doesn’t provide much of a gloss if you’re not up to date on your Finnish environmentalists.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
The importance of lethal microbes in human history is well illustrated by Europeans’ conquest and depopulation of the New World.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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