How To Use Weed out In A Sentence
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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.
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Simply weed out the ones in the wrong places.
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Perez said that there were virtually no procedures in place to weed out corrupt officials.
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We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
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Business development professionals often rely on simple rules of thumb to sort potential relationships and weed out unlikely partners.
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The shark's job is to weed out the weaklings, the ill and the infirm and it is designed for that job.
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Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices.
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And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers.
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All forms are being checked by Price Waterhouse computer systems to weed out illegal multiple applications.
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Also, those courses are often designed to weed out weaker students from prospective majors.
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Scoop the blanket weed out and use it to line hanging baskets.
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In fact we should review our investment portfolios regularly, and be prepared to weed out any share that could look outlandishly expensive.
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A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.
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The research will help governments to weed out ineffective aid schemes.
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Multiple offseason minicamps allow teams to weed out the majority of fringe players who demanded practice and game repetitions in the past.
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The question I am posing within the context of this thread, of demarcation, is to weed out the views of people such as Mr. Matzke as to which of the above two issues is the real reason why ID is not respected as science.
Demarcation as Politics
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They sought to weed out those who opposed capital punishment or were apparently too sympathetic toward an insanity defense.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed out the fault without eradicating the virtue" (Oliver Goldsmith).
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The cetology chapter is just there to weed out the easily discouraged.
Well, it's not like there's an election or financial crisis or anything.
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We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
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But my favorite was the huge bottle-shaped centrifuge, which is used to either weed out unfit people and to make the fit * more* fit, by getting them used to multiple Gs. They insert you from the side in a little capsule and then swing you around at a few revolutions a minute.
Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Charles Simonyi's launch - my excellent EDventure!
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Typically fans are alerted by text message or e-mail about an upcoming concert and are then vetted to weed out police informers.
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These same MBA and HR-types will argue that merit is also the way to manage the herd and weed out poor performers.
E pluribus unum
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To some people, this will seem an unwarranted naivety about the power of free speech in civil society to weed out cultural oppression.
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He is keen to weed out the many applicants he believes may be frauds.
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Weed out traitors and pro - Japanese elements and consolidate the rear.
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The party had already been forced to weed out more than 4,000 people from other parties and hard-left groups seeking votes.
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The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren.
The Garden Gloves Come Off
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The next phase is to go through my book collection (yiiii!) and weed out the ones I don't need, will never read, and either post them in giveaways here or donate.
P_n_elrod: Not a lot happening
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averruncate" (from Lat. _averruncare_, to ward off, remove mischief) glided into meaning to "weed the ground," "prune vines," &c., by a supposed derivation from the Lat. _ab_, off, and _eruncare_, to weed out, and it was spelt "aberuncate" to suit this; but the _New English Dictionary_ regards such a derivation as impossible.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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The designation was introduced to weed out bogus colleges set up solely to sponsor economic migrants.
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The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren.
The Garden Gloves Come Off
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If the pub business is anything to go by, we are desperately in need of proper supervision of laws and regulations before they go in the statute books, to try to weed out the pottiest of the ideas and also to introduce better ideas that might be adopted to everyone's advantage.
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Finally, should there be a reprint of this book, one can hope that the Press will take the trouble to weed out the endless proofreading errors that deface the present text.
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Back at home, one of our chores this week has been scooping blanket weed out of the pond.
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They encourage internal competition as the way to weed out the weakest.
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The parties could put forward nominees, but it would be up to the commission to weed out the worthless lickspittles and the timid timeservers.
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And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to theU. S.
The Volokh Conspiracy » President Calderon’s claim about “assault weapons”
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Various reports have claimed that Android malware is surging, but last week Google disclosed a fairly new technology called "bouncer" that it has been using internally to weed out harmful apps.
Columnist Walter S. Mossberg answers readers' questions about technology
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Simply weed out the ones in the wrong places.
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Instead, they want all complaints subjected to a vetting process to weed out those that are malicious or unfounded.
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Western schooling crowds out other forms of formal education like initiation rituals that were designed to bring an entire age group to the same level rather than to weed out students.
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I concluded Part 1 by explaining why it is difficult to apply a formal theory to either weed out programming bugs or prove their absence in arbitrary, large, and complex multithreaded applications.
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A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.
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So it's not surprising that in their efforts to weed out fraudulent transactions, some are being overcautious and blocking legitimate sales as well.
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We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
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An outlet that would cater for the whole of Eritrea in Arabic, Tigrinya and English, a media outlet that would weed out exclusion.
American Chronicle
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Scoop the blanket weed out and use it to line hanging baskets.
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On the game-creation side, you can play in ranked or unranked games, and you can specify a disconnection or "did not finish" percentage, letting you manually weed out jerks.
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He used dodgy restaurants to 'test' his dates and weed out the unadventurous eaters.
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The law encourages doctors and hospitals to join "accountable care organizations" that have financial incentives to limit unnecessary care; it beefs up "comparative effectiveness research" to weed out inefficient treatments; and it will eventually tax the most expensive insurance plans to restrain consumers 'superfluous use of health care.
The price problem that health-care reform failed to cure
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A marketing firm has formulated a special survey to weed out ‘whiny, entitled’ snowflakes, job candidates who are doomed to melt at the first sign of trouble.
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There is growing concern among community leaders that drunks and vagrants are causing problems in public places, and volunteers are now carrying out sweeps of the shopping area to weed out troublemakers.
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And before directing someone to do something on a national or international front, it might serve to imagine the child's sassy retort, "Who made you the boss of me?" to help weed out any hint of condescension or patronization in the message.
Colleen Turner: Best Communications Practices for Making a World of Difference
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So you have to make things rough for them and 4)weed out the 5)weenie trees early on.
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So you have to make things rough for them and weed out the weenie trees early on.
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Sounds like a change in policy is just what we need to weed out you lose cannons and get you the psychotherapy you so clearly need!
Think Progress » Gates to stop military from discharging gay troops who are outed by ‘third parties or jilted partners.’
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You can weed out any fakers in a phone interview.
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Regulatory activity may weed out bad practices but it is well-supported local leadership that sustains high standards.
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If ever there were a time to relearn commonsensical standards of behavior and weed out the Fabs before the government comes calling, this is it.
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It said that it would 'weed out stories that people frequently tell us are spammy'.
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This allows you to get very specific with your searches and weed out a lot of the cruft that can get in the way of good results.
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Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices.
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On the game-creation side, you can play in ranked or unranked games, and you can specify a disconnection or "did not finish" percentage, letting you manually weed out jerks.
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Scoop unwanted blanket weed out of garden ponds.
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The policy was intended to weed out underperformers and build a sense of teamwork.
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One must learn to weed out incendiary polemics and agitprop from the whirling online maelstrom to become an informed and thoughtful citizen.
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I spent most of my career as a prosecutor trying to weed out cops like this.
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The first round of interviews only really serves to weed out the very weakest of applicants.
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If the insurance industry's formularies aren't going to be "unappealingly narrow," how are they going to weed out useless but pricey me-too drugs, the best way to hold down prices in the long run?
Merrill Goozner: The Right Prescription
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Applicants are first interviewed, to weed out the physically weak, violent and unstable.
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Scoop unwanted blanket weed out of garden ponds.
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Weed out traitors and pro - Japanese elements and consolidate the rear.
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The windsock at the airfield has had a definite droop all week, and the sea is as flat as a pond, except for intermittent splashes from the seals, as they play amongst the seaweed out in the bay.
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People are entitled to compensation when they are injured, but we need to weed out the spurious claims.
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If all of this auditing really did weed out those poor teachers there may well be a purpose in it but it rarely does - poor teachers survive because they are better than no teacher and generally get given a good reference when they evince signs that they want to move on (the GTC is a whole other can of worms) - and yes I agree those that can fill in forms, find meaning and comfort in meaningless data and the set meaningless targets for others tend to rise to the top.
K-punk
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The party had already been forced to weed out more than 4,000 people from other parties and hard-left groups seeking votes.
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A committee of Democrat-appointed puppets to weed out all those pecky anti-tax, anti-spending, and anti-boondoggle initiatives.
Sound Politics: These legislators mustn't have a very high opinion of their voters
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Some bankers are sceptical that a disciplinary body could successfully weed out bad apples.
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So you do everything in your power to weed out the tricksters.
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Can he raise the profile of good research and weed out the poorest work?
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Starting from the ground up is the way 90 percent of the coaches in this league made it as far as they have, and that's one way to weed out the diligent from the inutile.
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Among the sedges by the river we found the KYLLINGA MONOCEPHALA; and, on the rich black clayed soil near it, a species of bindweed out of flower, with large sagittate leaves: in the scrubs back from the river, grew a small bush, about four feet high, which has been considered either a variety of
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Some tests already exist, for example helping weed out the gene causing late-onset blindness in gordon setters.
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Doing this exercise enabled me , in many cases, to immediately weed out the unqualified candidates.
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We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
