culling
Example Sentences
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Amid a worrying Covid variant outbreak among minks -- when Denmark was the largest exporter of their furs -- she ordered the culling of some 17 million minks, an order which was later ruled illegal.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
And in the Darwin-esque culling of leaders that followed, the ones that emerged victorious had little love for the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
The government has unveiled a deer management strategy that will identify priority culling areas and make it easier to carry out licensed night-time and closed-season shooting.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
This wasn’t a major housecleaning but more like a culling of online subscriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 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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