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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

We have culled the most common questions and provided answers — hopefully definitively.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2015

From various sources we have culled the following orders bearing on special points, which we state as briefly as possible.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis