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    1. Also, placing a bounty on these dangerous insects would encourage the public to assist in the cull


    2. The broadcasts were full of reports about the soldiers that had been sent to the Isle of Wight to cull all the infected cats


    3. A controversial deer cull had occupied the headlines several years previously


    4. learn the pain of being ostracized, and hopefully cull that trait from


    5. to cull us the way they must have done


    6. Magazines say they can scarcely afford the manpower to cull through the piles looking for the Next Big Thing


    7. HE claims humanity as his children and uses us to cull


    8. The day the Americans arrived many of the inmates had been slaughtered by the camp commandants but I was allowed to hide by a guard and survived the final cull


    9. In truth, though, old Big‘un didn‘t cull his groceries—if he could catch it he would eat it


    10. “Oh yes you can, as the head of the family that makes you responsible, your family has become a liability, I am in two minds whether to just kill you or to cull the whole family, now for the last time where are those two stupid nephews of yours?”

    11. I can tell you where it laid waiting for sentience to come cull the excess to create this tool


    12. and investments into the other venture capital start-ups for us to salvage or cull as


    13. ” What is it to have family members be fanatical about you, or to cull from your fanatics a set of parents and siblings? Does one really desire either scenario? The family splinters beneath the spectacle of self, where personal success trumps family commitment, because I'mage seeks self-adulation, rather than collective health


    14. “They started operation Cull the Dull before the first Kyoto Protocols


    15. Their speech about returning to the resort might have been a ploy to cull her out of hiding


    16. It was my idea to stay back at the site of the cull and to wait for their gun toting leader to return to discover the wages of his sin


    17. computerized, the Principal Officer of the bank should cull out the transaction


    18. section of the river, all the way from the bridge to the end of the cull


    19. but Carrie was able to cull the meaning out of the volu-


    20. that it was encouraged by Wildlife Park representatives to kill, cull, crush, cut up, clear out

    21. Weary from too many hours of sleep, they cull language from dreams


    22. Greenpeace began in Canada in 1969 with the call to ‘Save the Whale’ from being hunted to extinction and to stop Canada’s annual seal cull; it played a key part in getting an international moratorium on whaling and boosting international sales of whale music


    23. With all its imperfections, however, if you can, from the mass of facts, cull any one which may be useful or interesting, I shall be fully compensated by the pleasure of having furnished it, for any trouble I may have been at in doing so


    1. Had they went on with their plan, they would have been culled like sheep


    2. By mid-morning, I had culled a third of my belongings


    3. early commuters culled that watershed day when human


    4. I wouldn't advise it to the majority of new writers though, it can be soul destroying watching the stuff you're most proud of being culled from the work because it's not 'x' series


    5. Unfortunately, many Havanese were culled without mercy


    6. She had to pick up eighteen thousand mercenaries, “contractors” in the more polite parlance of the news media, from a planet that specialized in training such personnel culled from prisons all over the galaxy


    7. Culled, is a sugar-coated word that means killed


    8. Thus, more return is often culled from these “debt states”, simply


    9. It was obvious that the population needed to be decreased, but by how many and how quickly could it be carried out? With fewer people to support, all the other manufacturing could be culled back


    10. The best of each generation were taken, allowed to mature to adulthood, while the others were culled from existence, and from this batch the process was started over

    11. the idea from images culled from her twin’s mind


    12. As she culled through her father’s letter, she gathered that all was well at home, and felt glad about that


    13. From the existential conflict of naively wanting to will an ideal is culled a capitulating cynicism that abdicates reality for virtuality, where the dream of the ideal has been recreated in the GameWorld of Anime-me-heroes


    14. In the process that Jane outlines, she takes her images and any associated sounds and indexes them using a controlled vocabulary culled from a textbook—in which all images related to the heart are referred to as “cardiac,” for example


    15. The bot can handle most e-mail queries, supplying answers culled from past interactions with live customer service reps, and, on the rare occasions when the system can’t adequately resolve a customer’s issues, can pass the customer on to a live rep


    16. We culled out of the homeless vets assembled anyone with a rank of E-7 or higher and gave them command of a full company of eighty vets


    17. The canteen truck was staffed by mess sergeants that were again culled from the ranks and I was thankful for Lori and Tempie who had made another decision that made me look good


    18. Nevertheless, with a small flock of chickens, the meat of a culled steer or dry cow, and all the milk and cheese they could want, the family remained well fed


    19. Sawkins said that Socialism was a lot of bloody rot, and Crass expressed the opinion - which he had culled from the delectable columns of the Obscurer - that it meant robbing the industries for the benefit of the idle and thriftless


    20. Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights, as he said, in my honour

    21. When they left, I culled my resupply box, organizing my food into a pile to pack into Monster


    22. culled two weeks ago at the least


    23. Before Hill starts seriously sifting through the boards, he develops his macro themes, mostly culled from Web research and forum postings from other investors he respects


    24. There are a few nontechnical pieces of information to review for your stocks, and then the list should be culled to be able to focus on a select list of a few names


    25. Both the trend identification and the trade plan were culled from an actual plan for the week of July 15, 2013


    26. The population was culled by accidents, occasional pestilence, the females by overbreeding


    27. Maryanne Reed allowed me access to her complete collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia, most of which was culled from the files of the newspaper Hollywood Citizen-News and the Woman’s Home Companion, both of which are now defunct


    28. She also gave me access to all of the documents that were culled from her research using “The Milton Greene Papers


    29. What quantities of French phrases I culled from those books for Kolpikoff’s benefit if I should ever meet him again, as well as for HERS, when at length I should find her and reveal to her my love! For them both I prepared speeches which should overcome them as soon as spoken! Upon novels, too, I founded new ideals of the moral qualities which I wished to attain


    1. As Annalisa chatted with us (‘Why are they culling


    2. This included training boys after age seven in military schools, belonging to military clubs though age thirty, culling out weak infants, and training girls to be hardy and fit to produce strong lads


    3. support the culling of strays from the Yellowstone National


    4. Culling or shooting of pigeons is often ineffective as


    5. Of all involved in the Clegg sting, he and Delmage had spent the most time together and it was they who had organised with precision the culling of the ranks


    6. Obviously, with his new identity, he was one not to be included in the culling, the killing


    7. And what proponent of culling this “lower” species or that one, would play so fast and loose with controlling the population of his own?


    8. A parallel situation exits on the web, where the challenge is culling the desired information from the vast stores of information available


    9. I’ve been culling them too close, he thought


    10. ” Stay alert for this sort of assertion when you are culling material for your media diary

    11. Neill emphasized the importance of assessing the crowd’s view by culling information from the print media


    12. Similarly, the contrarian trader’s skill in culling suitable media content that accurately reflects the tenor or the time is built only through experience


    13. After years of culling through academic research and running them through his simulations, Petainen has developed 11 variables he screens for before he buys stocks for his portfolios


    1. Basically, the regular hunts and culls just stopped


    2. So they ruin all the good stuff, while all they feed us are the culls and


    3. beginning to examine his nosegays, culls out two, one for herself,


    4. And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond, from the M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun


    5. This boy we had often seen, and bought his flowers, out of pure compassion, and nothing more; but just at this time as he stood presenting us his basket, a sudden whim, a start of wayward fancy, seized Louisa; and, without consulting me, she calls him in, and beginning to examine his nosegays, culls out two, one for herself, another for me, and pulling out half a crown, very currently gives it him to change, as if she had really expected he could have changed it: but the boy, scratching his head, made his signs explain his inability in place of words, which he could not, with all his struggles, articulate


    6. Newborn seals cannot swim and are easy to catch—thousands are massacred by hunters and in culls each year by simply walking among them on the ice and clubbing them


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    Synonyms for "cull"

    cull reject pick pluck draw extract

    "cull" definitions

    the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality


    remove something that has been rejected


    look for and gather