noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be doomed to failure/defeat/extinction etc
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Many species are doomed to extinction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mass
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The passing bell is sounding for the mass extinction of species.
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It's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species.
■ NOUN
event
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The end of the Triassic was marked by what is probably the third largest extinction event since the Cambrian.
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One possible case of paired impacts has been widely discussed in connection with the Cretaceous extinction event .
face
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Out of 329 parrot species, 30 face extinction .
■ VERB
cause
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Whatever caused the extinction , it is not soft skin that determined survival.
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It's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
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But germ lines can deteriorate and cause extinction of lineages.
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This meant that they had now gained a tremendous advantage over the reptiles, even causing the extinction of many of them.
doom
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Over the period since 1945 as a whole, other beasts proved mammoths - of elephantine size but doomed to extinction .
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Under emancipation, the Negro was thought to be doomed to extinction .
drive
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This trade may be driving some species to extinction .
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The original passenger pigeon was driven into extinction from a population that reached almost ten million at one point in time.
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They, too, are all being driven towards extinction .
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The bug obtains its energy by chemical means and may drive smelters to extinction .
hunt
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There, for 20 years, she had watched helplessly as that country's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction .
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Whales, too, were hunted to near extinction before the moratorium-of 1986.
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The aurochs are thought to have been hunted to extinction in Britain during the Bronze Age.
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The big cat has been hunted to near extinction .
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Wolves, which are clean and beautiful, have been hunted almost to extinction because they are seen as dangerous.
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Less clear is the question of whether mushrooms can be hunted to extinction .
save
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Many are working to save species from extinction , animals from cruelty, natural environment from destruction.
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He is at the forefront of the campaign to save the Elephant from extinction .
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It was saved from total extinction by two developments.
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Ornithologists have been fighting to save the bird from extinction for the last 50 years.
threaten
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Large numbers of rare and beautiful Alpine plants are threatened with extinction .
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Several equally renowned eating places such as Drouant are also threatened with extinction .
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When this happens it can dramatically slash profits - and can even threaten a business with extinction .
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Most of this trade is legal and involves species not threatened with extinction , although conservationists feel better controls are needed.
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The large numbers of wild orchids being traded threatens some species with extinction .
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And these prized woods come from special trees, many of them threatened with extinction .
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There are between 80,000 and 100,000 species of trees, of which 8,000 are threatened with extinction .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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attempts to save the elephant from extinction
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Greenpeace believes that whales are in danger of extinction .
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Large numbers of rare and beautiful Alpine plants are threatened with extinction .
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Out of 329 parrot species, 30 now face extinction .
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The Scarlet Macaw is in imminent danger of extinction .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the Scandinavian settlers of the Upper Mississippi Valley, leprosy had declined to near extinction .
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Epistandard rates of evolution are required to make up the loss through extinction .
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If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction .
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In the infrared, extinction by dust is an order of magnitude smaller than in the visible portion of the spectrum.
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Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction .
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The belugas of the St Lawrence may now number only 400, and this local population is almost certainly doomed to extinction .