See cull in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "[T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […]",
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"ref": "2018, Courtney Maum, Touch, page 109",
"text": "There had been an effort a few years back by an artist no one had then heard of—a British New Yorker named Craig Ward, who had been inspired by a friend's photograph of the bacteria in her son's handprint to take to the New York subways to cull bacteria for himself. He'd brought back the microorganism samples in petri dishes that he filled with a jellylike substance that would continue to feed the bacteria, and let the human stories ripen in the heat throughout the summer."
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"ref": "2002, Stephen Barber, Annihilation Zones: Far East Atrocities of the 20th Century, page 106",
"text": "Berzin was then replaced by Stiepan Garanin, who was culled for being a 'Japanese spy' (although the uneducated Garanin pleaded to his torturers that he had never even heard of Japan); Garanin was then replaced by Andrei Vyshnyevtsky, who was culled for being insufficiently murderous; Vyshnyevtsky was then replaced by Ivan Nikishov, who was culled for no reason at all, just after Stalin had slyly decorated him with the 'Order of the Hero of the Soviet Union'; […]"
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"sense": "organised killing of selected animals",
"tags": [
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"sense": "organised killing of selected animals",
"word": "harvendustapp"
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"lang": "Estonian",
"lang_code": "et",
"sense": "organised killing of selected animals",
"word": "loomapraakimine"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "organised killing of selected animals",
"word": "teurastus"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "organised killing of selected animals",
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"code": "et",
"english": "animal for slaughter",
"lang": "Estonian",
"lang_code": "et",
"sense": "individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded",
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"word": "tapaloom"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
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"translation": "animal",
"word": "teuras"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "item of produce",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded",
"translation": "item of produce",
"word": "hylky"
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{
"code": "et",
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"code": "et",
"english": "living organism",
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"word": "praak"
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
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"word": "בְּרָרָה"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
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"word": "paruranga"
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