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So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

In 2013, he broke the ring finger on his glove hand while helping a neighbor castrate a calf.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020

“Lay people can castrate and dehorn, but they don’t always recognize if an animal is sick,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2020

We could catch most of the pigs we needed to mark and castrate without ever getting in reach of the old hogs.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

She was also impressed with the opening scene, in which a rancher castrates a bull.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

His wife, infinitely more resolute, castrates him verbally: “What, quite unmann’d in folly?”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016

Cordyceps fungus, or the neuro-hijacking barnacle of crabs, Sacculina, who castrates the female crab and takes advantage of its parenting.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2013

At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals.

From Time Magazine Archive

In castrates there is an increase in the size and number of the cells of the anterior pituitary, again a compensation or substitution effect.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

He told the investor he saved money by buying cheaper but harder-to-handle male calves that haven’t been castrated and having his own team do it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Some historical records, including data from Korean Eunuchs in the pre-19th century Chosun Dynasty, suggest that castrated men lived about 18 percent longer than men who were not castrated.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

It will be adapted from Anne Rice's 1982 novel, which is set in the 18th Century world of the "castrati" - male singing stars who were castrated to preserve their high voices.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

In their heyday, Handel’s operas almost always involved castrati, singers who were castrated as boys to preserve their higher voices but still gained the full lung capacity and overall stamina of grown men.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

A castrated man; especially, one of those who were employed as harem attendants or functionaries in certain Oriental courts.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jason and Travis Kelce started the season talking about castrating bulls on their new podcast.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023

The Squeal Award got its name from Ms. Ernst’s 2014 campaign video where she said she grew up on a farm castrating pigs, and vowed to make Washington’s big-spenders shriek the same way.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

“I bet Harriet Hageman ran around and, when they were castrating the cow, she was carrying the bucket,” Jacobson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

Phil may act tough castrating a bull with his bare hands, but he becomes vulnerable when he and Peter share a few friendly, tender moments.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022

A prison report said, “He does high grade work caring for stock, and is able to do such operations as opening of abscesses and castrating of animals.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann