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cull

[kuhl] / kʌl /




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That’s why news this week that Greenland was planning to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks was so alarming to many online.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

In a rare spot of good news, the local government dropped the plan after national officials questioned its legality, but a future cull hasn’t been ruled out.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Speaking on the same programme, Alliance Deputy leader Eóin Tennyson claimed the cull was being used as an excuse to target Muir's job.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

As avian flu spread like wildfire through the industry, poultry farmers were forced to cull 26 million birds, leading prices to skyrocket.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

There Call, his hands in heavy rubber gloves, would cull, using a culling hammer.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Mass or individual culls are generally restricted to notifiable disease control, welfare emergencies, or licensed slaughter.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

The model, which does not source without permission, culls mountains of data about the natural world from partners including the Smithsonian, London’s Natural History Museum and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

She told AFP that because of the animal culls, her milk deliveries have fallen by up to 50 percent, resulting in a corresponding reduction in feta production.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Meanwhile, there are too few indications that China’s economic slowdown is leading to the sort of business upheaval that culls lagging businesses in a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

He uses some culls for vinegar and gives many to his neighbors.

From The Apple by Various

Allegations of corruption, even "moral corruption", have seen large swathes of senior figures culled.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Late last year, he released “Holo Boy,” a collection of re-recorded songs culled from the deep archive—we’re talking dozens of releases—he built by issuing material primarily on the platform Bandcamp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

DUP MLA for Fermanagh South Tyrone Deborah Erskine said it is "clear that significant questions remain" and called for an apology to those who saw the animals being culled.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Yurok revegetation crews culled invasive weeds and planted nearly half a million native seedlings across 50 species, including redwoods and black cottonwood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

I culled symptoms of mono, plantar warts, shingles, borderline personality disorder and a bladder infection, as well as listing a bunch of side effects from some TV ads for drugs.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

They said that they did so in part by comparing the state data with “third party commercial data” sets and law enforcement data sets, and that they further vetted their list by culling dead people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

There have been calls for alternative methods to vaccination for controlling the infection among cattle, such as badger culling, as they can carry the disease and transmit it to cattle.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Ford’s “iconic” swerve: CEO Jim Farley is culling the automaker’s broad lineup of often “boring” models to focus on the “iconic vehicle” business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“I always think, like the song, about cleaning it up or at least culling it so I could get all the records off the floor and onto the shelves.”

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

He would open the rakes and drop his catch onto the wooden culling board.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson


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