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“Why would they completely castrate this iconic, beloved character?” she wrote.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020

But alongside these essential legal updates, Thorne has revealed a way to castrate it, to remove its power.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2019

What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

In castrates there is an increase in the size and number of the cells of the anterior pituitary, again a compensation or substitution effect.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.

"He offered to be chemically castrated," said Marcia.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Gem was gelded, or castrated, as a young horse, a common practice for competition horses, because it generally makes them calmer, safer and more manageable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Some historical records, including data from Korean Eunuchs in the pre-19th century Chosun Dynasty, suggest that castrated men lived about 18 percent longer than men who were not castrated.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

In their heyday, Handel’s operas almost always involved castrati, singers who were castrated as boys to preserve their higher voices but still gained the full lung capacity and overall stamina of grown men.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 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

He describes his experience of castrating a hippo in the wild.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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

He cataloged it: “braiding rope, working with the cattle, castrating — braiding rope while smoking a cigarette, incredibly difficult!”

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

Ernst wowed Republicans with a 2014 debut ad about castrating hogs but she faced criticism after last month’s debate when she stumbled over the break-even price for soybeans.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2020

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