weeded

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The new scheme "weeded out" those paid-for actions that were not delivering enough for the environment or food production and that it would "support food production not undermine it", she added.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Anyone deemed untrainable or seen as dragging their feet risks being weeded out of hiring processes, marked down in performance reviews or laid off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

The long biotech winter cleaned up the sector: Many biotech companies that went public too early during the COVID-inspired biotech frenzy got weeded out by the sector’s subsequent weakness, Renna says.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Patrick McNicholas, who co-counsels cases with the firm, said the lawsuits were weeded out as part of the firm’s vetting process.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

But I have enough canned and dried stuff to live on; and if he had seen the garden, all in rows and weeded, he would have known someone was here.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien