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remove unwanted elements
The new law weeds out the old inequities
The company weeded out the incompetent people
How To Use weed out In A Sentence
- The UK's telecoms industry needs to weed out the fraudsters and scammers ripping off punters or face the threat of the plug being pulled on the premium rate industry.
- Simply weed out the ones in the wrong places. Times, Sunday Times
- Perez said that there were virtually no procedures in place to weed out corrupt officials.
- We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
- Business development professionals often rely on simple rules of thumb to sort potential relationships and weed out unlikely partners.
- The shark's job is to weed out the weaklings, the ill and the infirm and it is designed for that job.
- Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices.
- And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers.
- All forms are being checked by Price Waterhouse computer systems to weed out illegal multiple applications.
- Also, those courses are often designed to weed out weaker students from prospective majors.