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It is designed to weed out the insecure and trigger-happy, the reckless hotheads with something to prove.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Team members also serve as a reality check, helping to weed out bad ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Some viewers see it as a thinly veiled endorsement of the policy - hailed in the film as a crippling masterstroke to weed out fake currency from Pakistan.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

He said he’d like to give supervisors greater authority to quickly weed out complaints that “are demonstrably false on their face” based on body camera footage and other evidence.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

She used to say “A house will keep, whether you weed it or not, but that-air yard will git away from you in the bat of a eye.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns