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cull

[kuhl] / kʌl /




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A row is growing over the potential cull of Dartmoor's hill ponies as campaigners warn Natural England's approach to conserving the landscape could "devastate" the endangered breed.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

U.S. airlines spent over $5 billion on fuel in March, a 30% increase from a year earlier, leading carriers to raise ticket prices and cull flights.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

Major floods in Dagestan, protests from farmers against an animal cull in Siberia and authorities blocking attempts to organise protests against the internet outages have also led to localised pockets of frustration.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

It has decided to cull some 80 of the animals.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

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

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

Pepin-Neff, meanwhile, stresses that scientific research does not support shark culls as an effective method of reducing the danger of an attack.

From BBC Jan. 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

Like Charles Reade, Miss Anna Katherine Green is a believer in scrap-books, and culls from newspapers accounts of strange events.

From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2026

The local government's aim is to cut that population by half, and 24,000 animals have been culled so far this year.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2026

Mr. Allport, a historian at Syracuse University, found this lovely missive in the digital archive of RAF Bomber Command, one of the many archives he has culled to put this book together.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

“We help about 1,400 families a month and we plucked out who had experience at large financial institutions that we could learn from, and culled records from at least a thousand,” said Walter.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

The new crop of horses coming into the barn was a big one, and the stable string had to be culled.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

According to Shanker, limited culling may sometimes discourage wild animals from entering human-dominated areas more effectively than several other approaches currently in use.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

This week, host Scott Pelley was also fired after he confronted newsroom leadership about the culling in a tense staff meeting.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

Asked whether Wales could see badger culling in future in response to bovine TB he said he agreed with Wales' TB Programme Board that the disease should be addressed "in wildlife" as well as livestock.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Carriers have been raising ticket prices, hoping to pass the cost along to consumers, and they are culling flights that will no longer make money at higher price levels.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

I could see my culling like a trail behind us on the quickly forming ice patches.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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