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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

The minister said efforts had been made to undertake the cull in parts of the fields which would "minimise exposure to public view".

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

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

Drawing on data from Revelio Labs, which itself culls data through LinkedIn, the study finds companies benefit by attracting workers with AI talent.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

I pick my apples by hand; sort into three classes, sound and large, sound and small, and culls.

From The Apple by Various

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

It will pair garments with artwork culled from the museum’s collections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

They were tying knots in the culled raspberry canes.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It is her way of culling the weaklings; she will care only for the cubs that survive the fall and clamber back up to the bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

It was a lousy job, but twice a day, someone at the farm had to do the culling.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings


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