weeded

We weeded it out a long time ago.

In just three days, a court has weeded through hundreds of Manhattanites, selecting 12 people and six alternates to serve on the jury in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president.

“Because they have such a slow metabolism, they are very susceptible to the accumulation of mutations that are not weeded out of the system.”

The sense that bad actors could be weeded out at the root was satisfying liberal fantasy, though.

The exclusion of popular authors of Chinese descent led to speculation that the awards’ administrators had weeded out those whose political views might prove controversial in China.