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culled

/kuhld/US // kʌld //

删减的,剔除的,剔除了,删减过的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : selected, either as desirable or undesirable, and removed from a larger group:A number of culled sows were condemned due to emaciation.
    • : subjected to or reduced by this process:In the aftermath of the avian flu outbreak, many poultry farmers made claims seeking compensation for culled flocks.
    • : gathered or collected:This “reinvention” theory of art resonates especially with artists whose work relies on culled or salvaged materials.

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Examples

  • The government can’t pass an emergency bill on the mink cull without a three-quarters majority, meaning the opposition has the scope to block the plan.

  • The mink industry, while angered by the proposed cull, signaled it would ultimately have few choices.

  • Though there is little transmission to humans, the culls will put a further economic burden on the agriculture sectors as economic crises mount.

  • White-bread ISIS recruits, culled from the wastelands of Web 2.0, call that tidy division into terrible question.

  • Freeman never consented to the story; the newspaper culled its content from an MTV interview.

  • We are all used to on a current basis of animals being culled in the wild.

  • Her songs, which she cowrote with songwriter-producer Joel Little, are all culled from real-life experiences.

  • Here are six questions (and answers) culled from our conversation.

  • The following day he culled a log in another and distant skidway whose butt showed a slant of a good six inches.

  • The day following he culled another of the same sort on still another skidway.

  • Much of the substance of what we have written has been culled from the pages of that fascinating volume.

  • Dey is worsern jack-lanterns 'ticin' de culled fokses furder und furder into misery.

  • The facts respecting these three edifices have been culled from ancient parchments which would fill a large wheelbarrow.