cull out


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Verb1.cull out - select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"
winnow
choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
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In November, despite the pilot culls failing to meet their targets, Farming Minister George Eustice told an NFU tenant farmers' conference: "We are minded to go on next year and roll the cull out more widely," Lydia says: "The cull will be rolled out nationally and Warwickshire is at high risk."
Fright nights in the culling fields; Despite protests, the new year could see a badger cull in Warwickshire. MARY GRIFFIN speaks to two women standing between the badgers and the gunmen
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