cull
verb (used with object)
to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior.
have culled
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present perfectof cull.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In an effort to stop the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza - a deadly, extremely infectious type of bird flu - farmers have culled more than seven million egg-laying chickens.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023
Bell said many ranchers, including himself, have culled their herds because of limited water and hay.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
George Church and his Harvard postdocs have culled forty-five promising gene variants, not only from “super centenarians”—humans who’ve lived to a hundred and ten—but also from yeast, worms, flies, and long-lived animals.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
Meanwhile, some farmers have paid exorbitant rates for irrigation, while others have culled herds, axed fruit trees and fallowed fields, he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2014
Here I have culled and gathered together songs and poems that reflect the melody and harmony of Nature's forces.
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
