CULL

• Carefully select

• Cherry-pick

• Choose for downsizing

• Choose the best

• Filter

• Gather

• Gather discriminately

• Gather selectively

• Get the best of

• Glean

• Look for and gather

• Make a selection

• Pick

• Pick and choose

• Pick out

• Pick over

• Pick the pick of the litter

• Pick the pick of the litter, e.g.

• Pick through

• Put aside the inferior ones

• Reject

• Remove flawed ones

• Select carefully

• Select the best

• Sift through

• Sort

• Winnow

• The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality