cull
verb (used with object)
to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior.
was culling
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past progressiveof cull.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By far, the most common suggested solution was culling birds.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
Long after mass testing sites were shuttered, Ms. Tompkins’s team was culling birth records to identify people’s race, hoping to manually update tens of thousands of old case reports in the state’s disease surveillance database.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
By 2018, the company had launched an initiative called Healthy Conversations and was culling more than a million fake accounts a day from its platform, The Washington Post reported at the time.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
They remained there undisturbed until December when Bader was culling videotapes of Crosby’s TV specials for a DVD release — part of the estate’s goal of resurrecting his body of work.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2010
The only occupation that suggested itself at present was culling wild flowers, and stringing them to put round Bob’s neck.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
