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Catching and killing sharks has a long and controversial history in Western Australia - there were months of huge protests in 2014 when the state government authorised a cull after a spate of attacks.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

A previous order by former minister Edwin Poots for a cull of badgers was quashed by the High Court.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But now fresh questions are being raised over how the cattle cull operation was carried out.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“It’s not fair for you to cull every spend-happy tourist stepping off a pleasure boat at Fifth Harbor.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

As of December, Northern had stopped carrying out culls at stations, and has more recently stopped at its depots too.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

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

But vaccination alone did not stop the disease -- several culls were needed across the region.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

I sell in the orchard, peddle the second and third grades, make vinegar of culls, and feed some to hogs; never tried distant markets.

From The Apple by Various

What sets the show apart are lines like these, culled from Jefferson’s missives and brimming with vitality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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 price of eggs shot up after millions of hens were culled following the UK's worst outbreak of avian flu between 2021 and 2023.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

He had kept a 770- page diary while on the voyage; the book was culled from that.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

One eye-catching policy is to put some of the cash towards deer management, including targeted culling.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

Souvenir collecting is often a solo sport, with spouses and other travel partners tolerating it or quietly culling the collection when no one’s looking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

In the 193os, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the “unfit” from the genetic pool.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand