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Many of these structures are now crumbling, the communes depopulated.
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Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
As small towns have depopulated, aged, and lost their economic base, their medical infrastructure has contracted in kind.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
Both sides of the seventy-five-mile-wide frontier have been largely depopulated, except for soldiers.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
As small towns have depopulated, aged, and lost their economic base, their medical infrastructure has contracted in kind.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
Both sides of the seventy-five-mile-wide frontier have been largely depopulated, except for soldiers.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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“Depopulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depopulate. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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