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They cull the deer twice a year to assure their numbers can be sustained.cull = select for elimination
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I culled the information from numerous sources.culled = selected
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She has to cull the sick members of the herd.cull = select to remove
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Louie was never more than an inch from juvenile hall or jail, and as a serial troublemaker, a failing student, and a suspect Italian, he was just the sort of rogue that eugenicists wanted to cull. (source)cull = select for elimination
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At Ma's dresser, Kya meant only to cull the remnants of the drawers, but as she picked up her mother's brass-and-steel scissors—the finger holes curled and shaped with intricate patterns of lilies—she suddenly pulled back her hair, not trimmed since Ma left more than seven years ago, and cut off eight inches. (source)cull = select what is desired
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In it he painstakingly entered the information culled from reports the private detective delivered each day to Judge Ford's office: (source)culled = selected as important
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Each herb must be found in its den, harvested at its time, grubbed up from the dirt, culled and stripped, washed and prepared. (source)culled = selected from among many
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Management had called a series of meetings at the furniture factory for the end of that week, and Dad was convinced that he would be among those made redundant. Nobody over the age of forty had yet survived the cull. (source)cull = selection for elimination
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Cut off my hair, took my clothes, and put me in a pen outside with the others for a culling. (source)culling = selecting from among many
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What he had burned had been nothing more than an illusion with a title page on top, blank pages interspersed with written rejects and culls.† (source)
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Of course Edward and Alice weren't really related (in Forks the story was that all the Cullen siblings were adopted by Dr. Carlisle Culler and his wife, Esme, both plainly too young to have teenage children), but their skin was precisely the same pale shade, their eyes had the same strange golden tint, with the same deep, bruise-like shadows beneath them.† (source)
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No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries As are behoveful for our state to-morrow. (source)cull'd = selected from among many
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She had read and reread them—cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human—till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.† (source)
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thither anon A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf, Unculled, as came to hand;† (source)Unculled = not having selected from among manystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unculled means not and reverses the meaning of culled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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And well he knew that they had been culled from the halls of Idlehour as reminders of Elysian days. (source)culled = selected
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The whole city is cull of idiots thinking they've been containing the virus.† (source)cull = select from among many
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