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- noun Plural form of
culling .
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Examples
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He held us spellbound when he theatrically warned us of 'cullings'.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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Also, the park service did do some large elk cullings during the time when the wolves were gone and the lamar valley is near the eastern edge of the park so it is not inconceivable that the elk heard could have been under some hunting pressure when it ventured outside of the park.
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Also, the park service did do some large elk cullings during the time when the wolves were gone and the lamar valley is near the eastern edge of the park so it is not inconceivable that the elk heard could have been under some hunting pressure when it ventured outside of the park.
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Still, I want to take a moment on my personal megaphone - my blog - to explain exactly why spay and neuter programs are vastly superior to brutal cullings of this nature.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Still, I want to take a moment on my personal megaphone - my blog - to explain exactly why spay and neuter programs are vastly superior to brutal cullings of this nature.
थिग्न्स that make me mad, because they are dumb, dumb, dumb... AND CRUEL! 2009
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The few big-game animals arriving from Africa have been killed in supervised cullings.
Animal House Greece, Olga of 2008
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The F&M epidemic, but most importantly, the cullings, had a measurable effect on the rural economy and destroyed many livelyhoods, probably for nothing.
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But I was annoyed by my inability to deal with a novel so central to the Western canon, and my much-abused copy survived several cullings of my library.
Moby Dick: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Reader and Other Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2007
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And worse, the book was victimized in one of the Alfars 'annual cullings.
smaller and smaller circles Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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I liked the auditions and enjoyed the cullings down to 32.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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