cull something from something

cull | American Dictionary

cull
verb[ T ]
us/kʌl/
to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose:
She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book.
If you cull animals or plants, you kill or remove them:
to cull growing herds before they run out of food
culling dead timber

cull | Business English

cull
verb[ T ]
 WORKPLACE informaluk /kʌl/us
to reduce the number of people that work for a particular company by a large amount:
The programme of redundancies was intended to cull 1000 jobs.
The company has culled 1,900 people from its workforce.
cull
noun[ C ]
 WORKPLACEuk /kʌl/us
a large reduction in the number of people that work for a particular company:
The cull will affect almost 15% of the 7,000 staff.
a management/staff cull

Examples of cull

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The sows are assigned to the following pools : replacement gilts, batches and culled sows.
The estimation of repeatability and heritability from records subject to culling.
Since s (p, x) can have either a positive or a negative value, a modification must be made to the minimax culling algorithm.
In the case of a livestock reservoir, vaccination of livestock (when available) may now make more sense than culling.
First, the consumption of game meat consists of the illegal off-take and legal game meat distributed from the managed culls, and these are considered homogenous.
On the other hand, very high culling efforts can be too expensive to be achieved.
In the present work, we investigate the effect of more realistic, timevariant culling strategies by explicitly using a cost-benefit framework.
Equations (2) can be modified to take into account the number of times (l) the individuals are bred before culling.
Seropositive animals should be culled within 30 days of marking them on the farm.
Following confirmation of cases, there is a period before the farm eliminates scrapie (culling infected animals and certain bloodlines).
The estimation of variance and covariance components with an application when records are subject to culling.
In the simulation, they are culled by default because of infertility.
At the end of the study, all birds were culled.
The 6 treated pheasants contained 33n8p12n1 (1 standard error) worms when culled at 25 days post-infection.
Hamsters were culled and perfused and the schistosomes extracted 60-70 days post-infection.
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