go extinct
Frequency: 8.225.5 per million words
Slightly more informal than 'become extinct'.
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- Many species go extinct due to habitat loss.
- Scientists warn that polar bears might go extinct within decades.
- Without conservation efforts, tigers could go extinct in the wild.
- Climate change is causing coral reefs to go extinct rapidly.
- The dodo bird went extinct in the 17th century.
- Experts predict that many languages will go extinct this century.
- If we don't act now, rhinos will go extinct forever.
- Overfishing has caused several fish species to go extinct.
- The last mammoth populations went extinct about 4,000 years ago.
- Researchers study why certain animal groups go extinct while others survive.