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Non-existence and not being
absence
absent
aren't
defunct
die
disappear
extinguishment
lamented
negation
non-being
non-body
non-existent
nothingness
now defunct
presence
seronegative
such
there's no such thing/person (as)idiom
void
wasn't

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extinct | American Dictionary

extinct
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
no longer existing:
There is concern that the giant panda will soon become extinct.
An extinct volcano (= mountain made from burned materials) is one that is no longer active.

extinction

noun[ U ]us/ɪkˈstɪŋk·ʃən/
Many species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction.

Examples of extinct

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They will inevitably carry their parasites in such movements and so these have the potential to rescue declining local populations or replace extinct ones.
The final prediction that species would go locally extinct and be replaced by rescue effects was not met.
Extinct populations were not replaced by viable ones.
The myriad chemical publications of these cameralist reformers exist today as the artifacts of an extinct profession.
In the skulls of extinct taxa, the orbit and nares are represented by dark gray shading.
Species that depend on large, and/or permanent, aquatic sites for reproduction simply go extinct as is reflected in species composition and turnover patterns.
However, if its increased reproduction causes the host to die before transmitting the pathogen to another host, the mutant genotype will become extinct.
Alternatively, there could have been multiple species (all except one of the lineages going extinct), with restricted gene flow among them.
Even if males and females do survive and mate, the numbers may be so small that the pioneer population goes extinct by chance.
By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnancies boded ill fortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it was far from extinct.
A population may also become extinct due to exceptionally high mortality rates.
Fitted curves not constrained to pass through 0 when cohort becomes extinct.
The present work is a reminder that the art of bestiary is not completely extinct.
Ammonites will also find little to celebrate in the new database as we next find out how they also went extinct.
In both replicates the parasite became extinct between days 90 and 100.
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