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Definition of Extinction
Extinction
The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Lester B. Pearson

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Robert T. Bakker

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Susan Sontag



Extinction Translations
extinction in French is purge
extinction in Italian is estinguere
extinction in Norwegian is utslettelse, slokking


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