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Definition

to select from among many — sometimes what is desired; sometimes to eliminate that which is not wanted

cull = select for elimination

culled = selected

cull = select to remove

In it he painstakingly entered the information culled from reports the private detective delivered each day to Judge Ford's office:
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

culled = selected (from among many)

In the 1930s, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the "unfit" from the genetic pool.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

culling = selecting to eliminate

He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

culled = selected

Each herb must be found in its den, harvested at its time, grubbed up from the dirt, culled and stripped, washed and prepared.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

culled = selected from among many

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.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

cull = select what is desired

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.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

cull = select for elimination

No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries
As are behoveful for our state to-morrow.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

cull'd = selected from among many

  I do remember an apothecary—
  And hereabouts he dwells,—which late I noted
  In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
  Culling of simples. ...
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

culling = selecting from among many

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.
Stephen King -- Misery
Cull me, Marcia had written.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
The seriousness of such an occasion is directly proportionate to the number of bodily emissions you are asked to cull for analysis.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
They were brandishing crude weapons culled from the debris of construction: jagged shards of glass, torn-off chunks of rebar, concrete blocks.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
Cut off my hair, took my clothes, and put me in a pen outside with the others for a culling.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
With the candles she'd finished boxed for transport to her shop, she began to set the ones she'd culled out on shelves.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
They use the plagues to cull the population of weak genes, the same way the Trials pick out the strongest.
Marie Lu -- Legend
"Hey, cull," he called in loud voice, "ain't ye goin' to cough up a drink?"
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
The term comes from the fourteenth-century French trier, "to pick or cull," and was first used to describe the sorting of wool according to its quality.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

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