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cull

[kuhl] / kʌl /




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In a rare spot of good news, the local government dropped the plan after national officials questioned its legality, but a future cull hasn’t been ruled out.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

That’s why news this week that Greenland was planning to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks was so alarming to many online.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Catching and killing sharks has a long and controversial history in Western Australia - there were months of huge protests in 2014 when the state government authorised a cull after a spate of attacks.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The UFU called on the Alliance politician to quit on Friday over his department's handling of a controversial cull of 51 cattle in Fivemiletown in County Tyrone.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

There Call, his hands in heavy rubber gloves, would cull, using a culling hammer.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Mass or individual culls are generally restricted to notifiable disease control, welfare emergencies, or licensed slaughter.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

The model, which does not source without permission, culls mountains of data about the natural world from partners including the Smithsonian, London’s Natural History Museum and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Meanwhile, there are too few indications that China’s economic slowdown is leading to the sort of business upheaval that culls lagging businesses in a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

But vaccination alone did not stop the disease -- several culls were needed across the region.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

If shaken from the tree, poured out carelessly, or jolted about in a lumber wagon, it simply increases the culls and decreases the cash returns.

From The Apple by Various

What sets the show apart are lines like these, culled from Jefferson’s missives and brimming with vitality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The price of eggs shot up after millions of hens were culled following the UK's worst outbreak of avian flu between 2021 and 2023.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

Or they might recognize the Feng Shui Yundo culled from the nearby Korean Cultural Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

Supplies have recovered, with the number of chickens culled during the last fiscal quarter down 70.6%, according to U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

‘It is kingsfoil, Sir,’ he said; ‘but not fresh, I fear. It must have been culled two weeks ago at the least. I hope it will serve, Sir?’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

For now efforts are aimed at culling the vast deer herd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

There have been calls for alternative methods to vaccination for controlling the infection among cattle, such as badger culling, as they can carry the disease and transmit it to cattle.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

I had finally finished culling my desk’s contents the day before, after a year of going through it drawer-by-drawer, a few minutes at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“I always think, like the song, about cleaning it up or at least culling it so I could get all the records off the floor and onto the shelves.”

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

My father took a few days off to shoot duck, and then put the culling board back on the Portia Sue and headed out for oysters.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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