adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extinct (= it does not erupt any more )
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The lake is at the foot of an extinct volcano.
extinct (= no longer existing )
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About a hundred species are becoming extinct every day.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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By the turn of this century the barrens were almost extinct , and the list of their constituent species hardly recorded.
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The yard was a desert of flint chips and rolling stock that was almost extinct .
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He played an almost extinct worm crawling through dead leaves.
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These wonders are happening because a breed of lawmakers thought to be almost extinct has been reasserting itself.
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By 1830 the breed was almost extinct and by 1907 the situation was critical.
now
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I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south.
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Many tropical islands once had their own species, but most of these are now extinct .
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We have no way of knowing whether any other animals now extinct - pterodactyls perhaps? - also evolved the technology independently.
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There was none after 1969, and the colony is now extinct .
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The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years.
virtually
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Much of the software currently in use is based upon virtually extinct programming languages that hardly anyone understands any more.
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It helps publishers' bottom lines, too, that head-to-head competition among papers is virtually extinct .
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As a result, the otter, barn owl and red squirrel are now virtually extinct in many parts of the country.
■ NOUN
species
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Why are there different combinations of extinct species in each layer of rock?
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His father had abandoned the family when Che was seven or eight-fathers often seemed to be an extinct species at City College.
volcano
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The island is actually the summit of a huge, extinct volcano .
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Even mightier in the background is the extinct volcano of Arthur's Seat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The valley contains fossils of many extinct species.
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The white rhino is now almost extinct .
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There are several theories as to why the dinosaurs become extinct ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of them were marine and all of them are extinct .
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Both are about modern paleontologists who encounter groups of hominids thought extinct for eons.
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But there was no laughter, and he had to remember that Browning Societies had been extinct for a long time.
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Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.
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Once extinct this wonderful animal will be gone for ever.
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The adonis blue and silver-skipper butterflies are all but extinct .
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The most chilling exhibit space is a room that holds species that are extinct or endangered.