castrate
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Another contract would provide funding to DonkeyLand to castrate 100 donkeys within a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
Their task was to castrate the stallion — a necessary surgery to keep the animal from becoming uncontrollable and a danger to its owner and to other animals.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020
“Lay people can castrate and dehorn, but they don’t always recognize if an animal is sick,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
And if you asked him to, he could geld a pony or castrate a pig with the same kind of delicate authoritative finesse Michelangelo must have used carving his Pietd.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
She was also impressed with the opening scene, in which a rancher castrates a bull.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
His wife, infinitely more resolute, castrates him verbally: “What, quite unmann’d in folly?”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016
Cordyceps fungus, or the neuro-hijacking barnacle of crabs, Sacculina, who castrates the female crab and takes advantage of its parenting.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2013
At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals.
From Time Magazine Archive
The skull and brain of castrates, animal and human, is smaller than the average.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
He told the investor he saved money by buying cheaper but harder-to-handle male calves that haven’t been castrated and having his own team do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Female hamadryas baboons given hormonal contraception lived 29 percent longer, while castrated males lived 19 percent longer.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
It will be adapted from Anne Rice's 1982 novel, which is set in the 18th Century world of the "castrati" - male singing stars who were castrated to preserve their high voices.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
Still, many castrated household cats don’t like to share their space with others.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024
A teenage boy bawling into the silence of an empty church—now that’s a pretty horrific sound, right up there with the moans of a freshly castrated hyena.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Jason and Travis Kelce started the season talking about castrating bulls on their new podcast.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023
The Squeal Award got its name from Ms. Ernst’s 2014 campaign video where she said she grew up on a farm castrating pigs, and vowed to make Washington’s big-spenders shriek the same way.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
“I bet Harriet Hageman ran around and, when they were castrating the cow, she was carrying the bucket,” Jacobson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
Phil may act tough castrating a bull with his bare hands, but he becomes vulnerable when he and Peter share a few friendly, tender moments.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
A prison report said, “He does high grade work caring for stock, and is able to do such operations as opening of abscesses and castrating of animals.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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