culling

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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culling

  1. present participle and gerund of cull

Noun

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culling (plural cullings)

  1. The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
    • 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport[1]:
      It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds.
  2. Anything separated or selected from a mass.

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