extinction
noun
the act of extinguishing.
self-extinction
-
a word derived from
extinction.
Example Sentences
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Before Castle Bravo, almost no one worried about near-term self-extinction.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
Long before — spoiler ahead! — shots get fired, the play’s quartet of aspirational Americans have gone down the path of spiritual self-extinction.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2010
For struggling schools unwilling to contemplate self-extinction, slow starvation is the common alternative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few members of the species have worked harder toward self-extinction than Sir Hugh, who spent 30 years in the colonial service and was Britain's last Governor General in Cyprus before independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have not been a particularly ideal sort of beast so far, you know: but in me, Adam Jeffson—I swear it—the human race shall at last attain a true nobility, the nobility of self-extinction.
From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
