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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

“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

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

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2019

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

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 castrated man; especially, one of those who were employed as harem attendants or functionaries in certain Oriental courts.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

They arrived to find her father at the corral branding and castrating cattle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

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

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

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

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