The word 'culling' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the selection and removal of certain objects, animals, or people from a group. For example, "Teachers conducted a culling process to select the top students for the school’s honors program."
According to western and Hungarian diplomats in Budapest, Orbán is planning to purge the diplomatic service, culling up to three-quarters of Hungary's ambassadors.
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Foot-and-mouth was accidentally released from a laboratory, and was tackled by culling and restricting animal movements.
His list of reforms includes devolving power, culling the hereditary peers in the House of Lords, pushing a Freedom of Information Act and a Human Rights Act, and so on and on.
On July 10th the union marched on Whitehall, making the same demand as their forebears a century ago.The immediate target of modern farmers' ire was Hilary Benn, the environment secretary, who had told Parliament the day before that he would not be relaxing a ban on culling badgers in England.
The choice is stark: control by culling, or a slow death from starvation.Anton ThompsonJohannesburgFree as a birdSIR – Birds are the ultimate expression of liberation and freedom, which may explain why so many Britons "twitch" when watching them ("Starling-struck", March 19th).
He is now under house arrest in Brazil, resisting extradition on charges relating to the murder of Paraguay's then vice-president in 1999.In this section Fox's moment of truth Culling the politicians Cleaning up Stump war Despair and anger Reprints"We have two types of politicians the incapable and those capable of anything," reads a graffito on the wall of Congress.
So it is not surprising that the latest money-saving idea involves culling politicians.The fashion was begun by Jose Manuel de la Sota, the governor of Cordoba, Argentina's second most important province.
These days its managers are required to undertake "early reactive culling"—a polite phrase for shooting animals before they starve to death.
The spread of grass, starting roughly 10m years ago, was greatly aided by fires culling trees in areas that might, on the basis of their soils and ambient temperatures, have been expected to support woodlands.
A spokesman for the Scottish Gamekeepers Association says this is an excuse used by those that favour culling.
