culling

Example Sentences

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In 2020, it ordered the culling of all roughly 17 million farm-raised mink in Denmark to stop the spread of a coronavirus mutation, a directive it later admitted had no legal grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

This wasn’t a major housecleaning but more like a culling of online subscriptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

To solve it, she has employed a full-time worker whose main job is culling deer.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025

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

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings