wipe out

A century ago, wolves in the United States were almost wiped out by ranchers who regarded them as lethal enemies.

Back-to-back 66s gave him a two-shot lead to take into Sunday's final round but a double bogey on the first wiped out his advantage.

“A hyper-optimized species that can only survive in one environment will get wiped out if that environment changes,” he notes, and “lasting species are defined not by optimal solutions, but by ‘good enough’ ones.

“When 90, 95% of your population is wiped out through acts of genocide, it’s important to pass that forward.”

But that's a tough sell, even to their delusional audiences, when Trump's tariffs are wiping out people's retirement accounts and threatening to raise the price of everything from groceries to cars.