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cull

verb as in pick out for reason

verb as in gather

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Significantly culling the federal workforce has been a long-term priority for Vought.

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Disease control measures have been put in place around the site near Omagh and all birds on the farm will be culled.

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CNN recently launched CNN Headlines, a free streaming channel that provides fast-paced delivery of national and international stories culled from the network’s reporting.

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When the island became a state park in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the population exploded, leading to concerns about starvation and prompting the state to regularly cull the deer, she said.

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Bupa was rescued from a mass elephant cull in Zimbabwe in 1989 and brought to the conservancy when he was eight years old.

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