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What does weed out mean?

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  1. (idiomatic) to remove unwanted elements from a group
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People are entitled to compensation when they are injured, but we need to weed out the spurious claims.
The shark's job is to weed out the weaklings, the ill and the infirm and it is designed for that job.
The parties could put forward nominees, but it would be up to the commission to weed out the worthless lickspittles and the timid timeservers.
To some people, this will seem an unwarranted naivety about the power of free speech in civil society to weed out cultural oppression.
And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers.
I spent most of my career as a prosecutor trying to weed out cops like this.

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