I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Goats that are larger than average are culled from the herd.
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Names of potential jurors are culled from voter registration lists.
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Over two million sheep have been culled to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease.
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The anthology consists of 15 stories culled from literary reviews.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this is culled from letters from people who had the forethought to record the event.
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I don't think it was an illusion, a clever deceit produced by scientists culling and stringent access modelling.
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National newspapers cull their stories from all over the country - often, indeed, from all over the world.
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On any day, he may get 100 suggestions for a strip, from which he culls one or two.
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Or culling every other tree might help to change the feeling of being hemmed in.
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The Huskies continued to cull the best athletes in the West and brought them to Seattle.
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The Minke whales, which are numerous, should be culled because they are impeding the recovery of the endangered Blue Whale.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a seal cull
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The cull is thought to have cost many farmers their livelihoods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A cull of 1,000 middle managers should lop a further £225m off costs.
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A report had been received by his inspector that a discreet cull of the wild ducks on Hury Reservoir was under way.
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If it hadn't been so quiet, it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull .
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Meanwhile, the Montana state government seems unlikely to take on the call for translocation and a reduced cull .
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The first will almost certainly necessitate a major cull of the 140 committees.
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The latest cull brings the number of sheep and lambs killed in the Brecon Beacons national park since last week to 6,500.
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There has been no obvious cull of the past in the name of modernity.