culling
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The culling of the military's top brass has been particularly significant, with Neil Thomas, Lobsang Tsering and Shengyu Wang from the Asia Society Policy Institute describing it as "in a category of its own".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
The culling is part of an opening phase that will test whether any other tools, methods or equipment are needed when crews expand the process next year, Barton told The Times earlier this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
There Call, his hands in heavy rubber gloves, would cull, using a culling hammer.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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