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culled

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of Cull

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. Michael Pollan

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. Michel de Montaigne

You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. François Rabelais

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate. Tristram Stuart

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. Fred Allen

According to James Lovelock, by 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. Source: Internet

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