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cull

[kuhl] / kʌl /




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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

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

Susan French, 79, who was visiting Diss from Long Stratton, Norfolk, called for "drastic" measures such as a cull.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

The old-timers wanted to see how we’d handle it, wanted to cull the faint of heart.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Its chief executive, SJ Hunt, said the charity was trying to make sure those in need were benefiting from deer culls in their own region.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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

In London street, I ne’er could find, A girl like lively Sally, Who picks and culls, and cries aloud, Sweet Lilies of the Valley.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

It is a move more big firms such as Alphabet’s Google, Verizon and Intel have adopted as they have culled their workforces in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

AI-driven answers culled from sifting information in large language models might lack important context or fail to interpret it correctly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

The songs are culled from folk, stage musicals, patriotic songs, Tin Pan Alley songs, culturally diverse songs, film songs, and religious songs.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

For now efforts are aimed at culling the vast deer herd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

I had finally finished culling my desk’s contents the day before, after a year of going through it drawer-by-drawer, a few minutes at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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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