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culling
[ kuhl-ing ]
noun
- the act or process of selecting and removing desirable or undesirable individuals from a group:
Reducing farm exposure to the bacteria will require more rigorous testing and culling of infected animals.
- the process of gathering or collecting:
To realize progress through the transfer of ideas, an informed culling of content and the extension of a shared knowledge base are essential.
- the group of things resulting from either of these processes:
The collection War in Context provides a crucial culling of stories that I would surely have missed had I not read it.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of culling1
Example Sentences
In Mexico, an outbreak of H5N2, a different form of bird flu, was successfully controlled in the 1990s, and quite quickly, by vaccination along with culling and controls on poultry movement.
The carnivorous mammals are classed as an invasive species in the islands, and a culling programme for stoats began in 2019.
While the U.S. relies on mass culling, other nations have developed more effective, humane strategies.
"The Environment Ministry failed desperately to limit the number of bear attacks by the unprecedented culling of this protected species," he told the BBC.
The park service said it would authorize the culling of elk herds, to keep them separate from the cows.
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