weed out

phrasal verb

weeded out; weeding out; weeds out

: to remove (people or things that are not wanted) from a group

They will review the applications to weed out the less qualified candidates.

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Trump’s efforts to weed out DEI from the federal bureaucracy are already impacting the nation’s education system. —

Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025 These papers are absorbed into the worldwide library of research faster than they can be weeded out. —

Guillaume Cabanac, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025 Last week, New York City Mayor Adams sat down with incoming border czar Tom Homan and agreed to work with the new Trump administration in weeding out migrant criminals in the city. —

Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2024 Sarah Cohen and Justin Mayo, data reporters for Big Local News at Stanford University, spent weeks combing the logs for Taser deployments that had lasted longer than 15 seconds, weeding out incidents that were likely to have been tests and training sessions. —

Brian Howey, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for weed out