pick

Example Sentences

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A Baird Fresh Pick means the broker expects stocks to go up or down soon.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Ted Pick, chairman and CEO, called it a “record quarter” for the bank.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Her new book, Keep Your Hair On: Understanding Urges to Pick, Pull and Bite, is based on her personal experience and years of research into body-focused repetitive behaviours.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Pick up Sunday’s Times, and it’s as if the editors took that as a command rather than a criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

“Tell me man in dat show kin play a tune on a handsaw. Pick hit like a banjo.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner