A plant growing where it shouldn't is a weed. An object for which you have no need or sentimental attachment is garbage. Extirpate the one, toss the other.
-- Philip Kennicott, "The Symphony's Misbegotten 'Moon'", Washington Post, January 14, 2000
There had been no great missionary impulse in the Turkish incursions, no urge to extirpate the old ways.
-- Fouad Ajami, "The Glory Days of the Grand Turk", New York Times, May 2, 1999
If Soviet espionage or capitalist plots against the Soviet Union are malignant growths, it requires a professional to extirpate them by methods as unkind to random bystanders as radiation may be to healthy tissue.
-- Robert Leachman, "Super Thrillers and Super Powers", New York Times, February 19, 1984
