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

She was culling roses, while the man looked on with admiring eyes.

From Arms and the Woman by MacGrath, Harold