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desexing

verb

present participle of desex

as in altering

to remove the sex organs of desex the baby chickens destined for market

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Critics and opposition parties accuse it of altering voter registrations to give an advantage to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Schwemmer, 72, was charged with one count of official misconduct, one count of providing false information to law enforcement and one count of altering patient records.

— David Goodhue October 1, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

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Sometimes the operators already know about the leaks and are fixing them when the state air agency contacts them, according to the state’s dashboard.

— Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
From rent to gasoline, this algorithmic price-fixing playbook is wreaking havoc on family budgets.

— Lindsay Owens, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026

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If fully enacted, the cuts would amount to as much as 30% of PTS’s budget, and strip almost all operational funding from TaiwanPlus, thereby neutering the broadcaster.

— Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
And rather than trying to be, in my view, kind of smart about how to build up a Lebanese government for the purpose of disarming and neutering Hezbollah, which is definitely in Israel’s interest, Israel has been engaged in this bombardment of Lebanon.

— David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026

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