cull
verb (used with object)
to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"I am culling a souvenir, madame," said he, plucking a moss-ross as the lady passed.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever